(Hill) The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that it created a new section in its Office of Immigration Litigation dedicated to denaturalizing foreign-born citizens referred to it by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The move has been described by the department as an effort to “bring justice to terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and other fraudsters who illegally obtained naturalization.”
In order to denaturalize a U.S. citizen, the DOJ must prove that their citizenship was “illegally procured” through fraud in their application. The DOJ said a “growing number of referrals” from law enforcement agencies led to the creation of the section.
