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Justice Department files denaturalization actions against 40 people
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The U.S. Department of Justice said it filed denaturalization actions in multiple federal district courts against 40 individuals accused of serious offenses, including acting as an agent for a foreign government, voluntary manslaughter and aggravated sodomy against a special-needs man. The complaints were filed between Aug. 21 and Oct. 2, 2026, and the department called them the largest volume submitted in a single period under the Trump administration. Attorney General Todd Blanche said the announcement “marks the largest denaturalization effort in modern history.”
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The U.S. Department of Justice said it filed denaturalization actions in multiple federal district courts against 40 individuals accused of serious offenses, including acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter and aggravated sodomy against a special-needs man. The complaints were filed between Aug. 21 and Oct. 2, 2026, and the department said they “represent the largest volume of complaints submitted in a single period under the Trump administration.” [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
“Today’s announcement marks the largest denaturalization effort in modern history,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said, adding that the defendants “concealed critical facts from the U.S. government and represent serious criminal offenders” and that the department would continue to use the denaturalization process to protect national security. Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Civil Division said, “Every single one of these individuals lied their way into U.S. citizenship,” and described the effort as the largest in the department’s history. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
The department said the complaints were filed in the Central District of California, District of Arizona, District of Colorado, District of Columbia, District of Connecticut, District of Maryland, Eastern District of California, Eastern District of New York, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a naturalized citizen’s citizenship may be revoked, and the certificate of naturalization canceled, if the naturalization was illegally procured or procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation. [ 1 , 2 ]
The Guardian US reported that Trump had in previous months pushed the Justice Department to pursue denaturalization cases en masse, and that the New York Times reported in April that the department had identified at least 384 foreign-born U.S. citizens whose naturalization it wanted to revoke. The Guardian US also said the department issued a memo in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second presidency, instructing its civil division to ramp up denaturalization efforts. [ 2 ]
The Hill reported that denaturalization of citizens not born in the U.S. is uncommon and generally occurs in cases of immigration fraud or disqualifying crimes, citing prior research that between 1990 and 2018 there were only 305 denaturalization cases brought by the government. It added that the administration has cracked down on immigration and received strong backlash for its tactics, noting that multiple people have been fatally shot in encounters with federal immigration authorities within the last year and that there have been complaints about the treatment of detainees. [ 3 ]
Почему это важно
The filings test how far the government can use the Immigration and Nationality Act to revoke citizenship already granted, a step that is uncommon in U.S. practice. The Hill noted that the second Trump administration’s broader immigration enforcement has drawn backlash, so the scale of these cases is likely to draw scrutiny of the department’s use of denaturalization.
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- The Department of Justice announced denaturalization actions against 40 individuals accused of serious offenses. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The complaints were filed between Aug. 21 and Oct. 2, 2026. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Offenses cited include acting as an agent for a foreign government, voluntary manslaughter and aggravated sodomy against a special-needs man. [ 1 , 2 ]
- The department described the filings as the largest volume of complaints submitted in a single period under the Trump administration. [ 1 , 3 ]
- The filings were made in multiple U.S. district courts, including the Central District of California, District of Arizona, District of Colorado, District of Columbia, District of Connecticut, District of Maryland, Eastern District of California, Eastern District of New York, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Eastern District of Virginia and others. [ 1 ]
- Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a naturalized citizen’s citizenship may be revoked if it was illegally procured or procured by concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation. [ 1 , 2 ]
- The Guardian US reported that the New York Times said in April the Justice Department had identified at least 384 foreign-born U.S. citizens whose naturalization it wanted to revoke. [ 2 ]
- The Hill reported that between 1990 and 2018 there were only 305 denaturalization cases brought by the government. [ 3 ]
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- The Department of Justice filed denaturalization actions against 40 individuals. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The complaints were filed from late August to early October 2026, specifically Aug. 21 to Oct. 2. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The department said this was the largest volume of such complaints in a single period under the Trump administration. [ 1 , 3 ]
- The cited offenses include acting as an agent for a foreign government and voluntary manslaughter, and documents 1 and 2 also list aggravated sodomy against a special-needs man. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Attorney General Todd Blanche said the defendants concealed critical facts from the U.S. government and called it the largest denaturalization effort in modern history. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The Immigration and Nationality Act permits revocation of naturalized citizenship if it was illegally procured or procured by concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation. [ 1 , 2 ]
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- Whether the filing is the “largest denaturalization effort in modern history,” as the department said. The characterization comes from the Justice Department’s own release; the documents offer no independent count covering earlier periods, and The Hill cites older research giving different figures.
- The identities, locations and individual case details of the 40 people named in the complaints. The documents describe the categories of offenses but do not name the individuals.
- The April figure of at least 384 foreign-born citizens whose naturalization the department wanted to revoke. The Guardian US attributes this to the New York Times rather than to a document released by the department, and no other document in this set confirms it.
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- The Justice Department announces it has filed denaturalization actions against 40 individuals in multiple district courts. [ 1 ]
- The Guardian US reports the filings and notes earlier reporting on the scale of the department’s denaturalization push. [ 2 ]
- The Hill reports the filings as a record number of cases and notes how uncommon denaturalization is. [ 3 ]