After The New York Times reported that the administration had identified 384 foreign-born Americans as targets for denaturalization, Fox News host Will Cain asked Vice President JD Vance in an interview, “Could the law lead you to a place where we’d see accountability in the form of denaturalization or deportation from people who come to this country, legally or illegally, and take advantage of America?” Vance responded that the administration would “absolutely” be looking at how to denaturalize citizens and claimed that under the Biden administration there was a “big blurring of the lines between illegal and legal immigration.”

According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, denaturalization has historically been rare. It is typically only used in cases in which there is proof that a person was naturalized when they were not eligible, for example if a person misrepresented or concealed information during the naturalization process that would disqualify them from U.S. citizenship.

But in June 2025, the Trump Department of Justice released a policy memo expanding the administration’s “priorities for denaturalization.” The memo not only outlines new categories of immigrants who could be prioritized for denaturalization, but specifically warns that “the Civil Division retains the discretion to pursue cases outside of these categories as it determines appropriate.”

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    I’m unironically at the point where I would absolutely vote for the person who promises to exile every Trumper in this country. So…

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      Say this lightly, because if you look at how someone like Saddam rose to power…it’s starting to look less far-fetched for the orange kid-diddler to pull.

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      I honestly believe that a lot of higher officials should be hanged for treason. Starting with Trump and working our way down until justice is fully served.

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      No matter what, it’s going to take decades to undo Trump’s damage and frankly some of it is permanent. I expect no less than the next Dem President to be a full on leftwing dictator. Tear down the border wall, naturalize a shitload of immigrants, pack the court, yank every penny of aid to Israel, shutter every private prison, send the Nat Guard to Bezo’s house, and delete every record of student loan debt.

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        That doesn’t describe a dictator, that describes a courageous reformer who is taking his country back. Whether he is a dictator or not is determined by who he perceives as his enemies, how he treats them, and how he handles the next election.

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        and frankly some of it is permanent

        Nothing in this world is permanent, including the world itself.

        I expect no less than the next Dem President to be a full on leftwing dictator.

        I don’t want that, but I do want full rollback of every single action Trump has done, every piece of legislation he signed, every executive order, and every appointment he made, and I want to see measures put in place to prevent someone like Trump ever again gaining power.

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        You do realize they are fixing elections. There might not be a non republican president again for some time.

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            Free ish. I strongly suspect they have been cheating in every way possible in States they control for some time. Not just in the quasi-legal ways we know about.

            Now they have infiltrated down to the county level and streamlined their process of delivering death threats to election officials and have the programming of all the election vote counting machinery thanks to 2020, and everything else, I don’t know if you followed the 2020 thing but they are geared up to fix it and the Democrats have done shit to stop them, they have actively suppressed the people that actually are trying to stop them.

            We could win but we won’t because we fight under the Democrats is the bottom line, they are the controlled opposition. We could take it from them but we aren’t because we are not organized and they play us off each other and we are to fucking stupid to realize it.

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        Guess that I will try to aim for that position, if I somehow get close enough. I have big ideas about UBI, redefining how work…well, works, and how to make political powers more egalitarian. Unfortunately, I don’t think they could be realistically be implemented without a huge amount of force, be it social, political, or militant.

        I want the best future for people, but it feels like it can’t happen without being a complete jerk. 😞