Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times (gift link):

The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, according to internal guidance obtained by The New York Times, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100–200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year.

There were 90 criminal and civil denaturalization cases filed in 2018—the most since the 1990s—but they plan on processing up to twice that every month? That’s not a legal process, it’s an assault on citizenship.

I continue to bang on about this because it’s more than an intimidation tactic to silence 26 million naturalized Americans—it’s a precursor to the Trump regime deciding, without any legal recourse, who it counts as “citizens” and who are therefore worthy of the government’s protection.

It’s not hard to grasp the Trump regime’s twisted logic here: naturalized citizens represent ten percent of eligible voters; 55% of them live in four states (California, Florida, New York and Texas); they are overwhelmingly non-white (Hispanic or Asian); and they lean Democratic across most ethnic groups.

Voter suppression by any other name smells as foul.