2026年6月8日 / 美国东部时间上午10:10 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
作者： 卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯 移民事务通讯员
卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的移民事务通讯员，其报道在多个节目和平台播出，包括全国广播节目、CBS新闻24小时频道、CBSNews.com以及该机构的社交媒体账号。
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哥伦比亚广播公司新闻独家获悉，特朗普政府计划于周一宣布，将撤销17名被指控存在移民欺诈行为的美国公民的国籍，以此扩大其前所未有的撤销公民资格行动规模。
美国司法部官员表示，此举是美国政府有史以来最大规模动用其撤销公民资格权力的行动。在特朗普总统去年重返白宫并承诺发起历史性驱逐行动之前，这一权力极少被使用。历史数据显示，1990年至2017年间，司法部每年平均仅提起11起旨在撤销美国公民国籍的法律诉讼。
联邦法律长期以来允许政府尝试撤销那些官员认为通过欺诈手段获得公民身份的外国出生美国公民的国籍，例如在移民申请中隐瞒包括犯罪记录在内的相关信息。但这一程序历来耗时漫长、流程复杂且极少被启用，需要官员说服法官在联邦法院的民事或刑事诉讼中剥夺归化公民的国籍。
作为其针对非法和合法移民整体打击行动的一部分，特朗普政府一直在大幅加大撤销公民资格的力度。2025年，司法部扩大了应优先启动撤销公民资格程序的归化公民类别。上个月，官员们宣布了12起撤销公民资格案件，这在当时是多年来最大规模的此类行动。
在最新一轮撤销公民资格行动中，17名目标公民中有部分人被判犯有暴力或严重罪行，包括针对儿童的性犯罪。其他人则被判犯有欺诈罪或被指控存在移民欺诈行为。
美国司法部近日在全美各地联邦法院提交的诉状中辩称，这些个人在申请美国公民身份时隐瞒了其犯罪活动，或者原本就不具备归化资格——其中包括因为他们缺乏“良好道德品格”，而这是入籍程序的要求之一。
最新一轮撤销公民资格案件的目标包括：一名据称性侵女儿的海地移民；一名因性侵15岁以下儿童被判有罪的前南斯拉夫籍男子；一名因收受未成年人色情图片被判有罪的墨西哥移民；一名出生于哥伦比亚、被指控存在儿童性虐待行为的前天主教神父；以及一名承认犯下儿童性犯罪的菲律宾裔男子。
该群体还包括一名被指控提交欺诈性H-1B签证申请的印度移民；一名被指控洗钱的哥伦比亚毒贩之女；一名因电信欺诈被判有罪的牙买加裔男子；以及一名被指控诈骗部落赌场的古巴裔女性。其他归化公民则被指控使用虚假身份。
代理司法部长托德·布兰奇表示，司法部将对入籍程序中的滥用行为“零容忍”。
“刑事外籍人士会隐瞒其过往罪行，包括毒贩、性侵犯者和欺诈者，”布兰奇说道。
国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林表示，特朗普政府将“继续利用一切合法途径撤销外籍人士的公民身份并将其驱逐出境”。
“美国公民身份是一项特权，必须通过诚实的方式获得。如果你来到这里，违反我们的法律，并且在移民程序中撒谎，你就丧失了这项特权，”穆林说道。
撤销公民资格的程序允许被针对的公民对政府的诉状提出抗辩，以尝试保留其公民身份。如果美国公民的国籍被撤销，他们将恢复此前的移民身份，通常为美国永久居民，并丧失美国公民身份的所有合法权益，包括免受驱逐的保护。
Trump administration launches largest-ever effort to denaturalize U.S. citizens accused of fraud or other crimes
June 8, 2026 / 10:10 AM EDT / CBS News
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez Immigration Correspondent
Camilo Montoya-Galvez is the Immigration Correspondent at CBS News, where his reporting is featured across multiple programs and platforms, including national broadcast shows, CBS News 24/7, CBSNews.com and the organization’s social media accounts.
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The Trump administration on Monday plans to announce it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud, expanding its unprecedented denaturalization campaign, CBS News has exclusively learned.
Justice Department officials said the move represents the largest-ever effort by the U.S. government to use its denaturalization powers, which were rarely invoked before President Trump returned to the White House last year with promises to launch a historic deportation blitz. Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate.
Federal law has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud to obtain their citizenship, such as by concealing information, like criminal conduct, on their immigration applications. But the process has been historically lengthy, complex and seldom exercised, requiring officials to persuade judges to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship in civil or criminal proceedings in federal court.
The Trump administration has sought to vastly escalate denaturalization efforts as part of its larger crackdown on illegal and legal immigration. In 2025, the Justice Department broadened the categories of naturalized citizens who should be prioritized for denaturalization. Last month, officials announced a dozen denaturalization cases, at the time the largest such effort in years.
Some of the 17 citizens targeted in the latest denaturalization campaign were convicted of violent or serious crimes, including sex offenses against children. Others were convicted of fraud crimes or accused of committing immigration fraud.
In federal court complaints filed across the country in recent days, Justice Department officials argued that the individuals concealed their criminal activity when they applied for U.S. citizenship or were otherwise ineligible to be naturalized, including because they lacked a “good moral character,” one of the requirements in the naturalization process.
Those targeted in the latest round of denaturalization cases include a Haitian immigrant who allegedly sexually abused his daughter; a man from the former Yugoslavia convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 15; an immigrant from Mexico convicted of receiving sexually explicit images of minors; a former Catholic priest born in Colombia accused of child sex abuse; and a Filipino-born man who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime.
The group also includes an Indian immigrant accused of filing fraudulent H-1B visa petitions; the daughter of a Colombian drug trafficker accused of money laundering; a man born in Jamaica convicted of wire fraud; and a Cuban-born woman accused of defrauding a tribal casino. Other naturalized citizens were accused of using false identities.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department would have “zero tolerance” for abuse of the naturalization process.
“Criminal aliens are lying about their past crimes, including drug dealers, sexual predators, and fraudsters,” Blanche said.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Trump administration would “continue to use every lawful avenue to denaturalize and remove aliens.”
“American citizenship is a privilege, and it must be earned honestly. If you come here, break our laws, and lie in your immigration proceedings, you forfeit that privilege,” Mullin said.
The denaturalization process allows the targeted citizens to challenge the government’s filings to try to retain their citizenship. If U.S. citizens are denaturalized, they return to their prior immigration status, typically as permanent U.S. residents, and lose all the legal benefits of American citizenship, including protection from deportation.