Trump administration wants to set quota for denaturalizing American citizens

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/24/nx-s1-5649729/trump-administration-wants-to-set-quota-for-denaturalizing-american-citizens

The Trump administration says it wants to establish a quota for next year to denaturalize up to 200 American citizens per month.

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Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 219 pts · 245d (5 replies)

Denaturalize = strip Americans of their legal citizenship

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 21 pts · 245d (4 replies)

I was a bit drunk, it's bull, (see comments), but it's funny.


In a culinary context it could also mean cooking the protein, by heat, acid, dunno.

It's Trump, after all. Don't rule it out just because it's ridiculous.

rigatti@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 245d (3 replies)

Isn't that called denaturing, not denaturalizing?

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 245d

Yes lol

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 244d

Found the biochemist.

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 6 pts · 245d

lol, maybe I WAS drunk 😂

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 137 pts · 245d (7 replies)

Again, it won't stop with immigrants. Maybe LGBTQ will be next, then anyone who displeases the Regime.

riskable@programming.dev · 68 pts · 245d (5 replies)

They'll claim that because someone is LGBTQ+, their birth certificate is fraudulent and that counts as enough evidence for denaturalization.

fedupwithbureaucracy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 245d (4 replies)

This is the exact reason why I want to blow my brains out. I just came out as trans :(

grue@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 245d

Never blow your own brains out for something that's someone else's fault.

Atropos@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 245d

Don't do it friend, there are still plenty of us here who support you!

bufalo1973@piefed.social · 39 pts · 245d

Wrong target. If you have to shoot, shoot at your aggressor, not at yourself.

ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
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FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 244d

Muslims will be first on Steven Miller's list

xenomor@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 245d (4 replies)

Wait, wait, wait. Naturalized citizens are legal citizens. I’m pretty sure that they and every thumb I argue with on Nextdoor has told me that all of this is just about enforcing laws. Goodness gracious, I’m starting to suspect that they are lying.

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Stephen Miller is an unabashed racist, white supremacist, and fascist who has turned his bigotry into national policy. He is a the puppeteer behind the entirety of Trump's immigration policies. When this is over, he should be shot.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 244d

Why wait until it's over?

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

Indeed, they were always lying, about nearly everything. Now these assholes have their masks off - see "JD" "Vance" saying that people no longer have to apologize for being white (as if that was ever a thing).

jenings@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d

Lying or stupid, take your pick

GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 245d (2 replies)

We need to denaturalize every last MAGA voter when this is over - take away their ability to pull this shit here ever again.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 245d

And grandfather them out. Can't be a US citizen if your father or grandfather had their citizenship taken.

zbyte64@awful.systems · 2 pts · 244d

It's barbarism or socialism. Choose wisely.

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 245d

Maybe he wants to denaturalize Melania for not holding his hand.

Though this idea definitely has Stephen Miller's grubby hands all over it.

AreaKode@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 245d

We have a goal! We want to denaturalize ALL the redacted people!

Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 245d (1 reply)

They can only do this with a credible claim legally. However, we know how much that word does not matter to this current regime…

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 244d

SCOTUS has been making everything the assholes do credible, or delaying any ruling against it until they’re finished.

not_me@piefed.social · 21 pts · 244d (2 replies)
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PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 244d

His Mom isn’t American

Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d

After Trump send Miller to Belarus.

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 245d

You first, piggy.

W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 244d

Making quotas on people’s lives is stupid.

But if you want do denaturalize someone for lying on the application you can start with Elon.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 244d

So, a quota for doing an illegal act?

merc@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 244d

Obviously, the end goal is to ensure that nobody has any rights, just temporary privileges which can easily be stripped at the dictator's whim. That way everyone is always afraid to stand up to them or they'll get locked up, have their citizenship stripped, etc.

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 244d (1 reply)
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Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

Noooo bigmachole got banned? Mods are you aware it's satire?

sturmblast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 243d

This could be the most Anti-American bullshit yet

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 244d

USCIS spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser told NPR that the goal is to prioritize the denaturalization of people who have been found lying or misrepresenting themselves in the naturalization process

...and from this source:

“When they did fund us,” Kimbal Musk recalled, “they realized that we were illegal immigrants.”

“Well…” Elon Musk interjected.

“Yes, we were,” Kimbal Musk pushed back.

Video of the remarks shows Elon Musk laughing as he jumped in with a different interpretation: “I’d say it was a gray area.”

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

Let's de-naturalize the entire Epstein class.

Caribou@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 244d

Time to denaturalize billionaires

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

Looks like it is time for the Red Scare 2.0! Anyone who is woke is up for deportation. Better not be woke! Definitely don't ask us what woke is because that is also grounds for deportation.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

They won't stop until they kill me. Not that that would stop the inevitable.

They cant escape the karma that is coming to cleanse humanity once again.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -7 pts · 244d

Ofc. Fascism is just internal imperialism. Following in the footsteps of biden and every other president.

FG_3479@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 244d (3 replies)

I am okay with illegal immigrants being turned away as we have no idea about their criminal history and ignoring them allows drug dealers and gangs to sneak through.

But this is too far. Taking away the citizenship of those who have worked to legally become American for no reason but to hit a quota is not okay.

teuniac_@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 244d

I'd say that most of the immigration measures taken so far are really far from okay

merc@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 244d

illegal immigrants being turned away

This sentence makes no sense. "Turned away" implies that they are rejected at the border. If they're rejected at the border, at no point are they illegal immigrants, they're just people who want to pass the border for whatever reason. The only way they can become illegal immigrants is if they pass the border and are not turned away at the border.

we have no idea about their criminal history and ignoring them allows drug dealers and gangs to sneak through

This is Fox News propaganda. Drug dealers and gang members aren't taking their passports to a checkpoint and asking to please be admitted. If they're "sneaking through", it's because the US has one of the largest borders in the world, and it's effectively impossible to police all 9000 km of border, and it's obviously also unrealistic to build a secure wall covering all 9000 km.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 244d

This post exhibits the sort of well meaning, small thinking, gently heeled bias that greases the cogs of fascists.