Denaturalization risks becoming a tool of political control, creating a permanent vulnerability for more than 20 million naturalized Americans.
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In 1967, the Supreme Court said the government usually cannot take away citizenship without a person’s consent.
Some 10,000 people are likely to give up their US passport this year, way above average. Are they fleeing COVID-19? Nasty politics? Taxes? None of the above, says an expert on American citizenship.
Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for their naturalization applications to be processed by US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Without citizenship, they can’t vote.
Simulating some experiences of immigrant life can help nonimmigrants learn to understand, and even trust, people from other countries more.
The backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned to more than 700,000. Wait times have doubled in the last three years.
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