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Immigration,
Government

Aug. 15, 2018

DOJ increases scrutiny of successful naturalizations

Experts said that as more records and information have become digitally available there are more opportunities for prosecutors to find missteps in the citizenship process and have people denaturalized.

DOJ increases scrutiny of successful naturalizations
Niels Frenzen, a professor at the USC law school and director of the immigration clinic, says reexamining naturalization applications has a history in the U.S. that has primarily focused on war criminals.

The Trump administration has increased its scrutiny of successful citizenship naturalization applications, a significant change from the traditional approach to cases that have historically been brought as a result of war crimes or other serious human rights violations.

Many denaturalization cases originated with the former Office of Special Investigations in the Department of Justice, now the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Se...

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