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8:26Now PlayingWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's evasion of question over attacking Donald Trump's political rivals, such as Zohran Mamdani, surges into spotlight as the DOJ's plot to strip citizenship based on politics escalates. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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DOJ Opens Door To Stripping Citizenship Over Politics
"Throughout the campaign, Republicans teased an idea: the next Trump government would start to remove the citizenship of naturalized Americans.
Stephen Miller suggested it; the idea appeared in Project 2025. Online fever-swamp entrepreneurs, like Claremont Institute donor Charles Haywood, pushed a national “review” of everyone naturalized since 1965.
Now, the DOJ has taken the first real step towards expanding the government’s efforts to strip citizenship from those who applied for it and received it — and has suggested it will be doing so for explicitly political reasons. It came in a June 11 memo dryly titled “Civil Division Enforcement Priorities,” written by Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate.
Last on the list of five priorities is denaturalization. The memo directs the government to “maximally” go after denaturalization cases, and ranks which kinds of cases should receive the most attention. At the top of the list are cases against those who “pose a potential danger to national security, including those with a nexus to terrorism.”"
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