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Carlos Lozada

By Carlos Lozada

Opinion Columnist

The Trump administration is eager to strip naturalized Americans of their citizenship, and the reasons seem to vary wildly.

Official grounds include fraudulent citizenship applications, financial wrongdoing, violent crime and ties to gangs or drug cartels. But the president has also added justifications that are more subjective and idiosyncratic. “I’d do it in a heartbeat if they were dishonest,” he said in a recent interview with The Times. Or if they “complain” too much or “cause trouble” or if they “hate our country.” The administration is even setting a quota for how many denaturalization........

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