It Don't Matter How Long They've Been Here. Re-Migrate Them!
The Case for denaturalization
The Case for Denaturalization
(Mark Krikorian, The Blaze) - If the United States is serious about giving citizenship to worthy immigrants, we also need to be serious about revoking it from the unworthy.
More than 800,000 immigrants became American citizens in FY2024, and a comparable number are expected in FY2025. There are more than 25 million naturalized American citizens — about half the foreign-born population. I welcome those who followed the rules and took the Oath of Allegiance in good faith.
But many didn’t. That’s where denaturalization comes in.
Becoming an American citizen is a privilege, not a right.
The question of revoking citizenship from immigrants is part of a broader debate about what membership in our national community means — a debate made especially urgent by the waves of mass immigration the political class has allowed into our country over the past 50 years.
A vigorous, ongoing, and unapologetic commitment to denaturalization is an important part of the effort to restore integrity to U.S. citizenship. It is not about restricting citizenship gratuitously, but about demonstrating that becoming an American citizen is a privilege, not a right.
Historically, the number of people denaturalized has been quite low. From 1990 until the first Trump administration, fewer than…