Trump Admin to Strip US Citizenship from Foreigners Suspected of Immigration Fraud in Historic Crackdown
Trump administration officials announced a sweeping immigration crackdown Monday in which they plan to revoke the citizenship of over a dozen individuals accused of fraud.
A total of 17 U.S. citizens have been targeted for revocation, with the Department of Justice calling it the biggest-ever denaturalization operation in American history, according to an exclusive report from CBS News.
The federal government usually denaturalizes a foreign-born American citizen if they have obtained their status illegally through fraud, lied on immigration paperwork, or concealed a criminal history.
Some of the 17 citizens who have been identified for revocation were reportedly convicted of grave or violent offenses, including sex crimes against children. They also hail from a wide array of countries.
CBS News specifically highlighted a Haitian immigrant who is accused of sexually abusing his daughter; a man from the former Yugoslavia who was found guilty of sexually abusing a child under age 15; a Mexican immigrant convicted of receiving sexually explicit images of minors; a former Catholic priest from Colombia accused of child sex abuse; and a Filipino man who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime.