US moved to strip citizenship from 17 immigrants in new court cases
What's new: The cases target people accused of hiding crimes or using fraud to gain naturalization, widening the crackdown to legal immigrants.
The Trump administration on June 8 asked federal courts to revoke the citizenship of 17 immigrants, broadening its immigration crackdown to people who had already become Americans. The Justice Department filed denaturalization cases in district courts around the country, alleging the targets concealed past crimes or committed fraud during the naturalization process. Those named include people convicted of healthcare fraud, attempted sexual battery of a child and illegal prescription-drug distribution, as well as a former Catholic priest accused of abusing a minor and a man accused of filing fraudulent H-1B petitions. The department said about 130 denaturalization cases were filed from 2017 through July 2025.