The Justice Department (DOJ) published new guidelines encouraging its attorneys to seek to strip U.S. citizenship from individuals who have naturalized if they have committed certain crimes. The guidelines direct DOJ attorneys to pursue denaturalization of citizens who are immigrants if they pose a threat to national security or gained legal status through fraud by failing to acknowledge past crimes. But the guidelines go on to say the Attorney General will not place any limits on denaturalization efforts, reasoning that DOJ attorneys may also pursue denaturalization in “any other cases referred to the Civil Division that the Division determines to be sufficiently important to pursue.”
