All posts tagged "Citizenship"

The Department of Justice wants to strip a dozen Americans of their citizenship, including a former United States ambassador and National Security Council official, as it moves forward with denaturalization, according to a new report.

According to a report by The Hill, the DOJ announced on Friday that it is seeking to "denaturalize" 12 U.S. citizens between the ages of 26 and 75. One of them is former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha, The Hill reported.

The DOJ is alleging that the 12 people hid serious offenses by lying during the naturalization process, according to The Hill. The DOJ said they lied about providing material support to terrorists, war crimes, and sexual abuse of a minor, The Hill reported. ...

The internet reacted with uproar on Friday after Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Fox News, saying the Trump administration has focused on "citizenship fraud."

Bondi spoke to Fox News about the Trump administration's immigration policies and the escalating "aggressive denaturalization efforts," prompting a number of responses.

"Being a citizen in our country is a privilege, not a right. And Donald Trump is going to have everyone in this country who deserves to be here who is a citizen," Bondi said. ...

A legal expert Thursday slammed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's claim that Americans should be ready to show proof of citizenship.

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig called out Noem's response after reporters outside the White House asked her why ICE agents in Minnesota were asking people to provide their identification and legal status.

"In every situation we are doing targeted enforcement," she said. "If we are on a target, and doing an operation, there may be individuals surrounding that criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they're there and having them validate their identity. That's what we've always done and asking people who that are so we know who's in those surroundings and if they are breaking our federal laws we will detain them as well until we run that processing."...

President Donald Trump's scheme to earn revenue by selling "gold card" immigrant visas is being brought to life by Elon Musk's DOGE team, according to a new report in The New York Times.

Trump first discussed the notion in February to sell the exclusive visas for $5 million a piece to give “very high-level people” a “route to citizenship.”

At the time, Trump and his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, claimed the gold card visas would replace the EB-5 visa that grants citizenship to foreign nationals who invest in U.S. businesses, according to the report. ...

WASHINGTON – Birtherism’s back. But it’s tired. At least at the U.S. Capitol.

Ahead of Monday’s Iowa Republican caucus, former President Donald Trump has pulled out his old xenophobic playbook and is questioning the citizenship of former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) – Trump’s own former ambassador to the United Nations.

On Monday, Trump reposted a piece from the fringe-right, conspiracy-peddling Gateway Pundit falsely questioning Haley’s citizenship status....

ORLANDO, Fla. — Alberto Rivero-Milian told police he arrived at 8 a.m. Monday to the Orlando office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, where he waited in the parking lot for his ex-wife and her new boyfriend for almost an hour and half, according to newly released court records in the case. When they arrived just after 9 a.m. for her scheduled naturalization appointment, his ex-wife said she “was looking around nervously for her ex-husbands’ vehicle, but did not observe it,” according to the report. Last year, she had ended her 25-year relationship with Rivero-Milian after years of ......