Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans
- Posted on July 4, 2025
- By CNN
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Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans

For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts.