Denaturalization

My most recent BlueSky round-up included this:

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty.” If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
Christopher Webb 

It's one of those things that belongs on a list of moments I wouldn't have thought was possible 10 years ago.

That happened at the same time DHS has announced it plans to "denaturalize" citizens at a rate of 100–200 per month. The only cause that exists under law is fraud in the application process, so those numbers are extremely unlikely, if they operate legally.

The low end of that range is 10 times higher than the total number of annual denaturalizations in recent years (since the 1990s). The process is difficult in court for the government — as it should be! The highest annual number filed since the 1990s was 90 in 2018, and that doesn't mean they were all successful.

The Trump regime — of course — says it will pursue people beyond application fraud:

Categories of eligible people include gang members, those who committed financial fraud, individuals connected to drug cartels and violent criminals.

Since they pretend to think anyone with a tattoo is a gang member, and they call all sorts of things violence that are not, this could get bad quickly. I wonder if they will denaturalize Elon Musk for financial fraud? Hmm.