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The Trump administration has reportedly set a goal of yanking citizenship away from over a thousand naturalized Americans in fiscal year 2026, in yet another escalation in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

New guidance issued on Tuesday directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” next year, according to The New York Times.

Denaturalization is extremely rare. Per the Times, Justice Department figures say that only about 120 denaturalization cases had been filed since 2017, in sharp contrast to the potentially thousands of cases the administration is seeking to file in just one year.

According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, only 11 denaturalization cases were opened per year on average between 1990 and 2017; there was an uptick during the first Trump administration of about 25 cases a year, but nowhere near their current stated goal.

Experts have noted........

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