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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Catherine Armecin Martin

Trump's DOJ Expands 'Largest Denaturalisation Effort Ever' by Targeting 10 Naturalised Criminals

President Donald J. Trump walks from the White House Monday evening, June 1, 2020, to St. John’s Episcopal Church. (Credit: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

A new batch of naturalised Americans are about to find out that a US passport doesn't always mean permanent protection. The Trump administration has just filed to strip citizenship from 10 naturalised Americans accused of lying their way into the country's good graces, including alleged child abusers, a Medicare fraudster and a cocaine trafficker, all accused of lying their way into the country's good graces.

The move marks the latest escalation in what officials are calling the 'largest denaturalisation effort' in American history. It also raises fresh questions about how far back prosecutors are willing to dig into old immigration files to unwind decisions made years, even decades, ago.

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