Trump administration wants to expand anti-Nazi law to target critics: report

Based upon a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, Donald Trump's administration wants to ramp up efforts to purge the country not only of undocumented immigrants but also naturalized citizens.

CNN is reporting that the president's DOJ has been examining ways to expand the scope of a law that will allow them "to target a much broader swath of individuals – anyone who may “pose a potential danger to national security.”

At the center of the argument is a seldom-used law that allowed the DOJ "to deport hundreds of people who assisted the Nazis" who hid their involvement.

According to the CNN report, "The directive appears to be a push towards a larger denaturalization effort that fits with the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies. These could leave some of the millions of naturalized American citizens at risk of losing their status and being deported. "

That led Cassandra Burke Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, to warn, "The politicization of citizenship rights is something that really worries me, I think it’s just flatly inconsistent with our democratic system," because it can be used to target critics of the president.

The report adds, "... current and former DOJ officials who spoke to CNN said that the beyond instructing lawyers to file as many denaturalization cases as possible, the memo is so broad that it could allow the Justice Department to invoke vague or unsubstantiated claims to expel people from the country."

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