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The bill strengthens and speeds denaturalization and removal tools to protect taxpayers and national security by targeting fraud, terrorism, and serious crimes, but substantially expands grounds and procedures in ways that raise high risks of wrongful denaturalization, reduced due process, discriminatory application, and increased litigation costs.
Taxpayers and the public: the bill lets government revoke citizenship from naturalized individuals who affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations or committed terrorism-related offenses, reducing security risks and permitting removal of individuals tied to terrorism.
Taxpayers and state governments: the bill authorizes denaturalization for people who obtained $10,000+ in public benefits by fraud, deterring benefit fraud and protecting public funds.
The justice system and public safety: the bill enables revocation of citizenship based on convictions/admissions for aggravated felonies, espionage, or serious offenses within specified periods, facilitating removal of people convicted of serious crimes.
Naturalized immigrants (broadly): the bill expands grounds for denaturalization in ways that increase the risk of losing citizenship, creating stigma, legal uncertainty, and substantial life disruption for affected individuals and families.
Naturalized immigrants: the bill permits loss of citizenship or removal without (or independent of) a contemporaneous criminal conviction in some cases, increasing the risk of wrongful denaturalization and deprivation of core civil status without full criminal adjudication.
Immigrant communities and racial/ethnic minorities: vague standards (e.g., expansive 'good moral character' or broad 'affiliation' language) and broadened denaturalization triggers could be applied unevenly or politically, risking discriminatory enforcement.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Creates new prima facie grounds to revoke naturalization for terrorist affiliation, government fraud ≥ $10,000, or aggravated felonies/espionage within 10 years after naturalization and mandates retroactive voiding and removal.
Official title: To expand and clarify the grounds for civil denaturalization proceedings for individuals who have defrauded a governmental program, joined a terrorist organization, or committed certain criminal offenses.
Introduced January 20, 2026 by Thomas Earl Emmer · Last progress January 20, 2026
Creates new, narrowly timed civil denaturalization rules that let the U.S. revoke a person’s naturalization retroactively if, within a set post‑naturalization window, the person affiliated with a designated foreign terrorist organization, committed or admitted to defrauding government programs of at least $10,000, or was convicted of aggravated felonies or specified espionage/national‑security offenses. Revocation is treated as if citizenship was void from issuance and makes the person removable under expedited removal rules; the bill also includes findings and a severability clause.