This seems to have flown under the radar to a certain extent. Possibly on purpose, and possibly because so much else is going on both in the world, with the elections right now and candidates of questionable loyalties on the ballots, and in the immigration enforcement fights. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and policies are on all of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidate platforms - they want the whole kit and kaboodle abolished. You know, besides the Senate and other sundry items on their lunatic hit list.
There has also been the fight in the Senate over getting Acting United States Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed, but that seems to have finally been settled with a graceful retreat by the Trump administration over the IRS victims' fund they'd tried to set up.
Think back to the uproar when Marco Rubio took over as Secretary of State. One of his first brilliant moves was the revocation of student visas for holders who were embroiled in the anti-American, pro-Hamas campus uprisings of 2025. Obviously, the most prominent of the group to get his 'forever a student organizer' permit yanked was Mahmoud Khalil, the rabble-rousing terrorist sympathizer and indifferent college student who led the ongoing protests at Columbia University against Israel, which also targeted, intimidated, and threatened its Jewish students.
Rubio was upfront last year about how, had Khalil been truthful on his visa application to begin with - as well as any of the others who subsequently lost theirs - they would have never gotten one, period.
NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO A STUDENT VISA
We are still, thanks to activist judges and the money behind Khalil's legal efforts, stuck with this revolting Hamashole, who has filed yet another lawsuit against the Trump administration.
Mahmoud Khalil files suit alleging a 'public-private' conspiracy to target Israel's critics
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and several private groups, alleging they were part of a conspiracy to suppress criticism of Israel through a coordinated campaign to dox, jail and ultimately deport student activists.
The civil rights suit, filed in federal court Tuesday, names the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, as the architect of what it describes as an ongoing conspiracy to silence members of the pro-Palestinian movement by smearing them as antisemites.
Those efforts were aided by Canary Mission and Betar, two pro-Israel groups that maintain online lists of Israel's critics, often alongside unsubstantiated claims that they are affiliated with Hamas, according to the lawsuit.
Activists placed on those lists "were nearly automatically targeted by the Federal Defendants for arrest and removal," the suit claims, adding that the "process of nomination to punishment was frictionless."
I remain ever hopeful that one fine day we will at long last see the video of Khalil tromping dejectedly down the stairs from the deportation flight that is dropping his worthless, slimy a** off in Algiers.
It turns out, besides visas, ICE enforcement, and securing the border, the administration has been working on going after and removing the foreign and unassimilated anti-American and criminal elements that have been in this country for some time, but operating safely behind the shield of naturalized citizenship.
Unless you were born here, United States citizenship is a privilege, not a right.
That sentence suddenly has teeth and a vicious bite it never had before.
Trump DOJ unleashes largest denaturalization effort in department history — and says it’s ‘only the beginning’
Complaints allege attempted murder, child sexual abuse, and marriage fraud among naturalized citizens from 17 countries
The Department of Justice is moving to revoke the citizenship of more than two dozen individuals who the DOJ said committed crimes ranging from attempted murder to child sexual abuse to identity fraud, marking its largest citizenship revocation surge on record, Fox News Digital learned Monday.
"U.S. citizenship is one of our nation's highest privileges, and it must be obtained lawfully and honestly," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News Digital on Monday.
"The complaints announced today allege that these individuals secured naturalization through fraud, concealment, or other unlawful conduct— including by concealing violent crimes, sexual offenses against children, fraudulent identities, and other disqualifying facts," said Blanche.
The complaints against the 25 individuals, filed between July 20 and Aug. 3, involve naturalized U.S. citizens who are natives of 17 countries: Pakistan, Moldova, India, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Jamaica, Taiwan, Honduras, Cameroon, Jordan, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti and Sweden, Fox News Digital learned. The DOJ told Fox News Digital later Monday that it had added another case, raising the number of people facing denaturalization from 24 to 25.
...The cases bring the department's total denaturalization filings to 88 since Jan. 20, 2025, as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to strip citizenship from individuals it says obtained it unlawfully.
The cases span a wide range of alleged conduct that the Justice Department says should have disqualified the individuals from obtaining or keeping U.S. citizenship.
Even immigration advocates are grudgingly admitting that, even with the 'sharp rise' in denaturalization cases, after they've reviewed the ones now in progress, these are legitimate. Staying completely in hysterical character, though, they make sure to warn that these actions could later expand to being stripped of citizenship for lying about a traffic ticket in one's country of origin. They're laying the groundwork to fight these as targeted and frivolous, as they obviously hadn't expected an assault on this front.
...According to a June 17 report by TRAC, an immigration data research organization, the federal government filed at least 15 civil denaturalization lawsuits in May 2026 and 18 more by June 12. The figures mark a steep rise from a historical average of just 0.6 cases per month previously.
TRAC analyzed 166 denaturalization lawsuits filed in federal courts between 2008 and June 12, 2026. The report found that the main grounds for such lawsuits included use of false identities, immigration fraud, concealment of serious criminal conduct before naturalization, and false answers on naturalization applications.
One area of concern involves a question on the naturalization application asking whether an applicant has committed any criminal acts for which they were not arrested or convicted. A “no” answer to that question could be interpreted as false if the applicant received minor violations such as speeding, walking a dog without a leash, or fishing without a valid license. Under some jurisdictions such violations can be classified as crimes.
TRAC warned that the scope of denaturalization cases could expand in the future, adding the May and June 2026 lawsuits reviewed so far appear to be based on unlawful conduct serious enough to warrant civil denaturalization proceedings. Still, it said concerns are growing that less serious violations or even noncriminal conduct could be used as grounds for future lawsuits.
Holy smokes - there are consequences for actions appearing out of nowhere.
🚨25 complaints filed since July 20, 2026, mark LARGEST denaturalization effort ever
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) August 3, 2026
“U.S. citizenship is one of our nation's highest privileges, and it must be obtained lawfully and honestly,” said Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche. “The complaints announced today allege… pic.twitter.com/ek7uHiAooR
...“U.S. citizenship is one of our nation's highest privileges, and it must be obtained lawfully and honestly,” said Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche. “The complaints announced today allege that these individuals secured naturalization through fraud, concealment, or other unlawful conduct— including by concealing violent crimes, sexual offenses against children, fraudulent identities, and other disqualifying facts. Today's filings represent the largest coordinated denaturalization effort in Department history, but they are only the beginning. The Justice Department will continue to use every tool available to protect the integrity of the naturalization process and the safety of the American people.”
And strangely enough, folks are offering up all sorts of hateful activities for DOJ to look into that even just a few months ago could have only hacked people off.
Now?
I hope @SecRubio team is aware of this and also that there is an investigation into whether there is a basis for denaturalization. https://t.co/QAlqXTGcjv
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) July 19, 2026
Once an applicant has been allowed to raise their right hand to pledge the oath of citizenship, it doesn't mean they're scott-free. There is a mandatory three- to five-year period of 'good moral character' behavior before the naturalization ceremony. Any infraction during which can cause that citizenship privilege to be revoked.
One of the requirements for naturalization is good moral character (GMC). An applicant for naturalization must show that he or she has been, and continues to be, a person of good moral character. In general, the applicant must show GMC during the five-year period immediately preceding his or her application for naturalization and up to the time of the Oath of Allegiance. Conduct prior to the five-year period may also impact whether the applicant meets the requirement
Some judges are doing so already.
TEXAS: Immigrant Criminal Denaturalized in Texas District Court
— Texas_4_Trump-Kenny (@TexasTrump2024) August 5, 2026
A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas has revoked citizenship for a Mexican immigrant as part of a larger denaturalization effort by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The announcement from the DOJ stated… pic.twitter.com/ijR6AWG7Cy
...The announcement from the DOJ stated that while Montano was originally present in the U.S. legally, he “failed to divulge that he had sexually abused a child during the mandatory five-year good moral character period prior to the naturalization process.”
Lame-duck Congressman Chip Roy sponsored a bill that has a provision that strips away that five-year limit, among other restrictions, some of which would have difficulty passing constitutional muster, I would think. But imposing a limit on an ideology whose vision of conquest is in terms of centuries seems worth discussion.
The 2026 Chip Roy MAMDANI Act (H.R.8387) would change immigration law to bar entry, naturalization, or continued stay for anyone who joins or advocates socialism, communism, Marxism, Chinese communism, or Islamic fundamentalism (including DSA, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood). For naturalized citizens it removes the prior 5-year limit, so later support of those ideas could strip citizenship and allow deportation. Advocacy includes writings or posts. Decisions would face no court review. The bill is pending and has not become law.
This will probably go nowhere as Roy exits Congress, though.
Also depends on how the midterms shake out - yet another reason Republicans need to get out and vote.
If we had 10M ICE officers, Dem states and judges not blocking things could get this done in a few months. This and many other issues all going to be generational project. In order to continue progress Left cannot be in power in presidency and Congress for the foreseeable future.
— asamomma1 (@asamomma1) August 3, 2026
In any event, they're at it from every angle and that ain't nuthin'.
