Denaturalization is a Stark Threat to All Citizenship

I want to focus your attention on this new play by Josh Kovensky on the Doj seeming to open the door to denaturalizing citizens according to political activity or belief. I doubt that I must convince anyone who reads this that it is a bad thing. But I want to emphasize what is implicit in what is bad on this subject but must be as before and in the center as possible. The only cases in which denaturalization should never be used appear in the most extreme cases of flagrant acts which, if they had been disclosed before naturalization, would have prohibited citizenship in the first place. Even in most of these cases, the disadvantages generally prevail over the advantages. Because apart from the most extreme and unusual cases, denaturalization is a striking threat to the equality of all American citizens.

I was born in the United States. Depending on what I do, the state can send me to war, take me, even execute me. But I can never stop being an American citizen unless I give up this citizenship. As long as this threat exists in a significant sense, no naturalized citizen is really my equal. Their membership of the club is subordinate, subject to behavior, that is to say not at all equal.

The reason why denaturalization should be out of the table even in the vast majority of cases in which it is technically allowed is that once you decide to distort someone, you can probably find a technical defect in the naturalization process or a trivial omission to make it possible.

I will note that Trump has now threatened nonchalantly to distort Elon Musk. Needless to say, I have no sympathy for everything that happens to this clown. But as me and others have noted it in the past, it is clear that Musk has obtained and preserved his residence with false and fraudulent statements. These false material affirmations are thus anchored in its subsequent citizenship. Thus, the Trump DHS would have a non -trivial base, at least an argument, for trying to strip the musk of his citizenship. Again, a large part of me would be laughing to see this because of the way this immigrant – with at least one uneven story to acquire the residence – advanced the anti -immigrant beast and then had the best turn on itself. But he is not the only citizen with differences in his immigration history. It’s a bad thing, a bad thing. And the injury is not only for the denaturalized and expelled person. The much greater nature is for the nature of citizenship itself, the intrinsically status of the second class of all naturalized citizens and the equality of citizenship for everyone.