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On Monday, the Trump administration announced that it is seeking to strip the citizenship of 17 Americans born outside the U.S. in the largest denaturalization effort in decades.

The administration claims that the individuals committed serious crimes and failed to disclose them during the naturalization process. But this is only the latest maneuver in President Donald Trump’s attempt to ramp up denaturalization and target immigration, including legal immigration.

Of the 17 targeted individuals, 11 are from countries in Latin American and the Caribbean, three are from Asia, two from Africa, and one is European.

Last month, the administration announced that it would begin the process to denaturalize 12 other citizens.

Trump has moved to ramp up denaturalizations since his first term, and even more so in his second.

Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026

In December, the Trump administration directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to supply the Department of Justice with 100 to 200 denaturalization cases per month.

In April, the administration identified 384 Americans born outside the U.S. whose citizenship it wants to revoke. The administration also stated that it would use regular prosecutors in regional courts, rather than those within the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation, to accelerate the pace of denaturalizations.

Denaturalization cases have been........

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