2026-06-18T08:00:25.491Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
- 特朗普政府计划在10月前提起至少250起剥夺国籍诉讼，这是其取消公民身份行动的大幅升级。
- 司法部在不到两个月的时间里已经提起了29起相关诉讼，远超每年不足10起的年均数量。
- 民事诉讼律师已从其他部门抽调，专门处理针对被指控存在欺诈或犯罪行为的归化公民的案件。
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据司法部一名高级官员透露，特朗普政府计划在10月前提起至少250起剥夺国籍诉讼，大幅强化其取消归化美国公民国籍的行动。
今年不到两个月的时间里，司法部就已提起29起针对外籍裔美国人的剥夺国籍诉讼，指控他们通过欺诈手段获取美国公民身份。
根据锡拉丘兹大学交易记录获取清算所的数据，2008年至2026年6月12日期间，美国共提起166起剥夺国籍诉讼，年均不足10起。目前司法部的办案速度已远超往年，民事诉讼律师正在积极审查更多案件以提起诉讼。
此次行动是唐纳德·特朗普总统更广泛、激进的移民议程的一部分——该议程早已超越了针对非法入境者的范畴——也揭示了联邦机构如何调整资源以优先推进该议程。
据这位司法部高级官员透露，在幕后，司法部已从多个部门抽调民事诉讼律师——包括负责调查欺诈案件的人员，而政府曾将欺诈调查标榜为另一项首要任务——来处理剥夺国籍诉讼。与此同时，许多美国检察官办公室早已承受巨大压力，相关案件正被分派至这些办公室。
“这是国会数十年来写入法律的合法手段，”这位司法部高级官员告诉CNN，并补充道，剥夺国籍诉讼应被优先处理，“以保护美国公民身份的完整性，确保那些身处美国并享受公民福利的人是依法获得公民身份的，确保合适的人群才能获取公民身份。”
特朗普政府目前提起的案件涉及被指控在归化申请过程中或此前存在欺诈行为、猥亵未成年人或支持恐怖主义的人员。
根据联邦法规，如果个人在归化申请过程中作出与申请相关的虚假陈述，或通过非法手段获取公民身份——即他们本不具备申请资格——联邦政府有权撤销其公民身份。剥夺国籍诉讼通常属于上述两类之一，随后将根据具体情况以民事或刑事案件形式推进。
剥夺国籍程序不适用于在美国出生、凭借出生权获得公民身份的人群。（另外，特朗普曾试图通过行政命令终止自动出生权公民身份，美国最高法院即将对该政策举措的合法性作出裁决。）
根据美国公民及移民服务局的数据，过去十年里，近800万人成为归化美国公民。
司法部助理部长布雷特·舒梅特2025年6月的一份备忘录显示，政府已表明将优先处理剥夺国籍案件。舒梅特列出了10类优先案件，包括对国家安全构成威胁的人员、犯下战争罪的人员、存在欺诈行为的人员，以及在归化申请过程中未披露重罪的人员等。
“这些分类旨在指导民事 division 优先处理哪些案件；不过，这些分类并未限制民事 division 追究任何特定案件，也未按重要性排序，”备忘录中写道。
剥夺国籍专案组由12名律师组成，他们正在处理积压案件，并持续接收国土安全部转来的案件。这位司法部高级官员表示，积压案件包括身份欺诈案件、前科案件、战争罪案件和恐怖主义案件。
不过，鉴于案件数量庞大，司法部正从民事 division 的其他办公室抽调人员，包括民事欺诈律师、办公室前线的政治任命官员以及其他律师，以扩大办案能力。
与此同时，美国检察官办公室也在接收案件，并根据案件的起诉地点将其分派至全国各地。这位司法部高级官员表示，美国检察官办公室可能还会提起“数百起更多”的案件。
此类案件工作量大且耗时，这也是历届政府在很大程度上仅专注于战争罪和恐怖主义相关人员的部分原因。
例如，拜登政府四年间总共仅提起了24起相关案件，据司法部数据显示。
“他们或许能够加快案件提起的流程，但无论在立案前采取何种步骤，诉讼程序本身仍将是他们大规模剥夺公民身份目标的巨大阻碍，”曾在多届政府时期任职于司法部、现为正义联系组织创始人兼执行董事的斯泰西·杨说道。
剥夺国籍的情况极为罕见，且仅能在联邦法院进行。历史上，美国曾出于多种理由撤销公民身份，包括谎报入境日期、年龄或婚姻状况，以及政治原因。例如，二战期间，美国对亲纳粹的德裔美国人的归化案件进行了审查。
据熟悉此类案件的人士告诉CNN，司法部的律师此前曾将工作重点放在那些被认定犯下严重罪行的人员身上，这使得他们提交给法院的案件更为明确。不过如今，一些司法部律师感受到越来越大的压力，需要依据法律追究任何可被论证的案件——哪怕是基于文件填写方式的所谓欺诈行为，这些人士说道。
司法部官员坚称，该机构的工作重点是那些在申请美国公民身份时谎报犯罪记录或在申请期间持续实施犯罪行为的人员。
“收到停车罚单的人——不会成为我们投入资源关注的对象，甚至可能都不符合法律规定的剥夺国籍条件，”这位司法部高级官员表示。“我们真正关注的是那些对美国实施严重欺诈的人员，找出这些个体并尽快推进程序。”
“获得美国公民身份是一项特权，在特朗普总统的坚定领导下，司法部对滥用这一程序的行为采取零容忍政策，”代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在6月的一份声明中说道。
如果政府在剥夺国籍诉讼中胜诉，该人员将恢复获得美国公民身份之前的移民身份。通常情况下，他们会恢复永久居民身份，不过根据剥夺国籍的具体原因，他们也可能面临驱逐出境程序。
“之所以有如此完善的保护措施，之所以采用清晰且令人信服的证据标准，等等，都是源于最高法院的判例，”波士顿学院法学院教授丹尼尔·坎斯特鲁姆说道。
坎斯特鲁姆指出，政府对剥夺国籍案件的重视“可能令人担忧”，但目前尚未到引发警觉的地步，因为目前已提起的案件总体上符合历届政府曾追究的案件类型。
CNN的汉娜·拉比诺维茨为本报道作出了贡献。
Exclusive: Trump administration ramps up effort to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans
2026-06-18T08:00:25.491Z / CNN
- The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, a significant increase in efforts to revoke citizenship.
- The Justice Department has already filed 29 cases in less than two months, far exceeding the annual average of less than 10.
- Civil litigators have been pulled from other divisions to pursue these cases targeting naturalized citizens accused of fraud or crimes.
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The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, significantly intensifying its effort to revoke citizenship from people naturalized in the United States, according to a senior Justice Department official.
In less than two months this year, the Justice Department has filed 29 denaturalization cases targeting foreign-born Americans whom it accuses of fraudulently obtaining US citizenship.
Civil litigators are actively reviewing additional cases to file as the department picks up a pace that has already surpassed previous years: Between 2008 and June 12, 2026, 166 denaturalization complaints were filed, an annual average of less than 10, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
The push is part of President Donald Trump’s broader, aggressive immigration agenda — which has gone well beyond targeting people in the country illegally — and reveals how federal agencies have shifted resources to prioritize that agenda.
Behind the scenes, the Justice Department has pulled civil litigators from various divisions — including those assigned to investigating fraud, which the administration has flaunted as another top priority — to pursue denaturalization cases, according to the senior DOJ official. The cases are also being sent to US attorney offices at a time when many are already under immense strain.
“This is a lawful tool that Congress has had on the books for decades,” the senior DOJ official told CNN, adding that denaturalization cases should be prioritized “to protect the integrity of American citizenship and make sure people who are present in this country and have enjoyed the benefits of citizenship are doing so lawfully, and the right people are acquiring citizenship.”
The cases filed by the Trump administration so far include people who are accused of committing fraud, sexual abuse of a minor, or expressed support for terrorism before or during the naturalization process.
The federal government has the authority in federal statute to move toward revoking citizenship of an individual if they made false statements that were relevant to the naturalization process or if the citizenship was illegally procured, meaning they weren’t eligible for it. Denaturalization cases generally fall under one of those categories and then proceed as civil or criminal cases depending on the circumstances.
Denaturalizations do not apply to those who were born in the country and received citizenship through birthright. (Separately, Trump has attempted, via executive order, to end automatic birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether that policy move is legal.)
In the last decade, nearly 8 million people became naturalized US citizens, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The administration signaled its intent to prioritize denaturalizations in a June 2025 memo from Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate. Shumate listed 10 categories of priorities for cases, including individuals who pose a danger to national security, engaged in war crimes, engaged in fraud, or committed felonies not disclosed during the naturalization process, among others.
“These categories are intended to guide the Civil Division in prioritizing which cases to pursue; however, these categories do not limit the Civil Division from pursuing any particular case, nor are they listed in a particular order of importance,” the memo reads.
The denaturalization unit is made up of 12 attorneys who are working through a backlog of cases and continuing to field referrals from the Department of Homeland Security. The backlog includes identity fraud cases, as well as prior conviction cases, war criminal cases, and terrorism cases, the senior DOJ official said.
Given the volume, however, the Justice Department is pulling from other offices in its civil division, including civil fraud attorneys, political appointees in the front office, among other attorneys to expand capacity.
US attorney offices, meanwhile, are also being referred cases and distributing those around the country depending on where the case will be filed. The senior DOJ official said US attorney offices may file “several hundred more” cases.
The cases are intensive and time-consuming, which is partly why previous administrations have largely focused on people involved in war crimes and terrorism.
The Biden administration, for example, filed a total of 24 cases over four years, according to the Justice Department.
“They may be able to expedite the process for initiating these cases, but regardless of the steps they take before cases are filed, the litigation process itself is still going to be a huge impediment to their goal of denaturalizing people in huge numbers,” said Stacey Young, who served at DOJ under multiple administrations and is the founder and executive director of Justice Connection.
Denaturalization is rare and can only occur in federal court. Historically, the US revoked citizenship for a range of reasons, from lying about a person’s date of arrival, age or marital status to political reasons. During World War II, for example, the US reviewed naturalization cases of German Americans who were pro-Nazi.
Lawyers in the Justice Department had previously focused their efforts on people who had been found guilty of egregious crimes, making the cases they’d bring to court more clear cut, people familiar with these cases told CNN. These days, though, some Justice Department lawyers are feeling a building pressure to pursue any case that can be argued under the law — even alleged fraud based on how paperwork was filled out, the people told CNN.
Justice Department officials maintain that the agency is focusing on people who lied about criminal history or criminal acts that were ongoing when they applied for US citizenship.
“People who got a parking ticket — that’s not going to be somebody that we’re going to focus our resources on and may not even qualify for denaturalization under the statute,” the senior DOJ official said. “It’s really about finding people who have committed serious fraud against the United States and identifying those individuals and proceeding as quickly as we can.”
“Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in a June statement.
If the administration succeeds in a denaturalization case, that person will return to the immigration status they had prior to acquiring US citizenship. Generally, they usually return to their permanent resident status, though depending on the reasons for their denaturalization, they could also face deportation proceedings.
“The reason for the robustness of the protections, the reason the standard is clear and convincing evidence, etc. is because of Supreme Court decisions,” said Daniel Kanstroom, professor of law at Boston College Law School.
Kanstroom noted that the emphasis on denaturalizations by the administration is “potentially worrisome” but not currently cause for alarm, since the cases filed so far generally fit the type of cases previous administrations have pursued.
CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz contributed to this report.
