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The bill makes it easier and faster to strip citizenship from people convicted of providing material support for terrorism—strengthening enforcement—but does so by removing civil denaturalization safeguards and creating significant due-process and family-impact risks.
Naturalized people convicted of providing or attempting to provide material support for terrorism will lose U.S. citizenship, removing nationality from those convicted of serious terrorism offenses.
Federal courts that convict terrorism offenders can adjudicate denaturalization within the criminal proceeding, allowing faster enforcement and reducing the need for separate civil denaturalization actions.
Naturalized persons convicted under these criminal statutes will be automatically stripped of citizenship, reducing procedural protections by eliminating the separate civil denaturalization process and increasing risk of punitive loss of nationality without additional review.
Automatic denaturalization tied to broadly used terrorism statutes can cause severe collateral immigration consequences—including deportation or loss of benefits—that harm families and communities of the accused.
Shifting denaturalization into criminal trials may complicate trial procedures and raise due-process and evidentiary concerns if civil standards differ, creating legal and administrative burdens for courts, prosecutors, defenders, and defendants.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires automatic revocation and cancellation of naturalization when a naturalized person is convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§2339A or 2339B and gives the convicting court jurisdiction to enter denaturalization.
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for denaturalization of certain persons who provide support for terrorism.
Introduced June 24, 2026 by Beth Van Duyne · Last progress June 24, 2026
Automatically revoke and cancel the naturalization and certificate of naturalization of any person who, after naturalization, is convicted of providing material support to terrorism under 18 U.S.C. §2339A or §2339B. The bill also authorizes the federal trial court that convicted the person to enter the denaturalization adjudication. The change is narrow and procedural: it adds a specific, mandatory denaturalization rule for convictions under the listed federal terrorism statutes and assigns jurisdiction for those denaturalization proceedings to the convicting courts.