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The Justice Department is now aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip naturalize

U.S. citizens of their citizenship.

NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reports the DOJ is focusing on cases where naturalized citizens

commit certain crimes. The new stance where naturalized citizens commit certain crimes.

The new stance towards naturalized citizens who commit crimes is laid out in a memo from the Justice Department to its civil division employees.

Those crimes could include anything from national security incidents to cases of fraud, according to the memo.

According to 2023 data, 25 million immigrants are naturalized

U.S. citizens. Denaturalization has existed for decades and was used widely to deport citizens

accused of being communist during the 1950s. Some immigration attorneys have expressed concerns

over this expanded denaturalization effort,

questioning whether it is constitutional in how the families of naturalized citizens would be

impacted.

Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.

Senate lawmakers are in a race to the finish line as they seek to wrap up work on President

Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill.

Lawmakers taking part in a so-called

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