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The bill trades expanded enforcement tools, clearer statutory triggers, and administrative centralization intended to strengthen national security and program integrity against significant reductions in judicial review, broader grounds for denaturalization/deportation, risks of family separation, civil liberties harms, and substantial implementation and enforcement costs.
Taxpayers and local communities: the bill enables faster revocation of citizenship/immigration status and removal for people who join/support terrorist organizations or are convicted of serious crimes, reducing perceived security risks.
Children and families: certain children will retain citizenship at birth (children of U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and qualifying military parents) and denaturalized parents are kept with their U.S.-born children during removal proceedings, reducing immediate family separation and trauma in some cases.
Immigrants and oversight bodies: the bill creates more formalized, centralized administrative procedures (notice, hearing, appeal; consolidated adjudication at USCIS/AAO) and requires reporting on review progress, improving procedural predictability and transparency for some adjudications.
Immigrants and their U.S.-based families: the bill substantially expands grounds for denaturalization, visa/status termination, and removal (criminal convictions, benefit use, nationality-based rules, retrospective asylum reviews), risking widespread loss of status and family separation for large numbers of people.
Noncitizens facing adverse actions: the bill reduces access to robust judicial review and shifts many adjudications into DHS administrative processes (removing district court option, concentrating decisionmaking, imposing mandatory/automatic revocations), curtailing due process and judicial discretion.
Children born in the U.S. to parents without lawful status and mixed-status families: the bill prospectively narrows birthright citizenship and could deny citizenship to future U.S.-born children of undocumented parents, creating legal uncertainty and likely litigation.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Widens denaturalization and deportation grounds, narrows future birthright citizenship, enables administrative revocations of status, and requires standardized English testing for naturalization.
Official title: To establish grounds for revocation of citizenship and immigration status, to review certain asylum and refugee grants, and require repatriation of denaturalized individuals with their children, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 25, 2026 by Andy Ogles · Last progress June 25, 2026
Makes major changes to U.S. citizenship, immigration status, and removal rules by expanding grounds for revoking naturalization and lawful permanent residence, creating new administrative procedures for denaturalization, and establishing broad review and revocation powers for asylum, refugee, visa, and nonimmigrant admissions. It narrows birthright citizenship for future births, creates lookback and benefit-receipt-based deportability rules, defines new criminal and ideological triggers for automatic termination of status, and requires standardized English testing for naturalization applicants. The bill affects naturalized citizens, noncitizen permanent residents, recent beneficiaries of asylum or refugee status, nationals of six named countries who entered in a 10-year window, and children of denaturalized persons by imposing repatriation requirements and new removal processes. Many provisions expand executive-branch authority to revoke status administratively and increase grounds for deportation and expedited removal.