The Trump administration is temporarily transferring immigration lawyers to the Justice Department to accelerate efforts aimed at stripping citizenship from naturalized Americans.
The Trump administration is temporarily moving immigration lawyers to the Justice Department to speed up efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans, according to Reuters, which cited an initial report from Axios on Friday.
The temporary reassignments will shift attorneys from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to various U.S. attorney’s offices. The legal teams will focus on fast-tracking civil lawsuits against naturalized citizens suspected of obtaining their status through fraudulent means.
While denaturalization has historically been rare, the administration is aggressively scaling up its enforcement resources. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche recently stated that the administration is taking action to correct “egregious violations of our immigration system,” adding that those who misrepresented themselves “will face the fullest extent of the law.”
Reuters noted it could not immediately verify the specific timeline or exact number of personnel involved in the transfers.
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