Stop Government Efforts To Strip Citizenship From Americans

CITIZENSHIP MUST BE PROTECTED FROM ARBITRARY REVOCATION As your constituent, I urge you to oppose the reported Justice Department effort to revoke the citizenship of Americans who have already become citizens through naturalization. This is not about future applicants. It is about stripping citizenship from people who are already Americans. Naturalized Americans are full Americans, not conditional Americans. OVERSIGHT HEARINGS ON CITIZENSHIP REVOCATION ARE REQUIRED Recent reporting states that the Justice Department has identified 384 naturalized citizens for possible denaturalization as a first wave, with civil litigators from 39 regional offices possibly reassigned to support the effort. That scale demands scrutiny of who is being targeted, why their citizenship status is being examined, and how this program will be controlled. DENATURALIZATION MUST BE LIMITED TO CLEAR AND PROVEN FRAUD Congress can support narrow, evidence-based action where citizenship was obtained through clearly proven fraud. But that authority does not justify building a large-scale program to revoke citizenship from people long recognized as Americans. BROAD CITIZENSHIP REVOCATION PROGRAMS MUST BE REJECTED In earlier periods of history, governments used the power to revoke citizenship in ways later recognized as unjust and inconsistent with democratic principles. That history counsels caution. Any shift away from secure citizenship demands the highest Congressional scrutiny. VAGUE STANDARDS AND UNLAWFUL REVOCATION MUST BE CHECKED The Justice Department’s June 11, 2025 Civil Division memo directs attorneys to “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings” and allows cases deemed “sufficiently important.” In Maslenjak v. United States, the Supreme Court made clear that citizenship cannot be taken away over immaterial or irrelevant misstatements. Open-ended standards risk turning a rare remedy into a broad tool for revoking citizenship. THE SECURITY AND EQUALITY OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP MUST BE DEFENDED This is not just an immigration matter. It goes to whether citizenship, once granted, is secure. A system that lets the government reopen and revoke citizenship at scale runs against American principles of fairness, equal protection, and the rule of law. If this approach takes hold, millions of naturalized Americans will face the ongoing risk that their citizenship could be taken away years after it was granted. That outcome would be fundamentally un-American. I urge you to: (1) Speak out publicly against broad or politically driven citizenship revocation. (2) Hold oversight hearings on the program’s standards, targeting criteria, and safeguards. (3) Require written reports to Congress on denaturalization cases and enforcement practices. (4) Enact legislation limiting citizenship revocation to clearly proven fraud. (5) Use funding restrictions to block any expansion beyond lawful, evidence-based cases. Thank you.