Trump Administration Launches Denaturalization Task Force — Strips Citizenship from Naturalized Americans

The Trump administration launches a denaturalization task force within the Department of Homeland Security to investigate and strip citizenship from naturalized Americans. The effort expands a pilot program from Trump's first term and targets naturalized citizens for citizenship revocation based on alleged fraud in their immigration applications, including technical errors and minor omissions that were previously handled through administrative channels rather than denaturalization. The task force prioritizes individuals from Muslim-majority countries and countries that Trump has disparaged. The program creates a new class of 'conditional citizenship' — a category that the 14th Amendment does not recognize. Civil rights organizations describe the program as creating a 'nightmare scenario' for naturalized Americans who believed their citizenship was permanent.