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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We do need more law and order in our country. The guy who murdered the family in NW, for example, had a long rap sheet prior to the murders. He immigrated here from Guyana. If he had been denaturalized after his first offense, that family would still be alive. [/quote]

It was a horrific case, and I agree that had he been deported after any of his many offenses, the family (AND their Hispanic housekeeper--let's not forget her) would be alive today.

However, that's not how it has worked in the past. Before the Trump administration, denaturalization of U.S. citizens was rare, averaging 10-16 cases per year from 1990 to 2017. Cases mainly targeted serious fraud, war crimes, or national security threats. One reason is that there have been strict legal standards for denaturalization: The Supreme Court’s 1967 ruling in Afroyim v. Rusk established that citizenship could only be revoked for naturalized citizens in cases of willful fraud or misrepresentation during the naturalization process. This high legal threshold limited cases to those with clear evidence of deliberate deceit, such as concealing war crimes or using false identities. Another reason is that in a country created BY immigrants and populated by IMMIGRANTS and the descendants of IMMIGRANTS, revoking citizenship is a politically sensitive act. It suggests that some Americans are "less than" other Americans. That may work in countries that are more homogenous and that have much fewer migrants, but it's going to be difficult in the US context. Given that ICE appears to be grabbing some people off the street because they don't "look or sound American," denaturalization is not going to be an easy policy to implement.

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