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.
That power, under the new Trump administration, may be broadening.
According to a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, attorneys should aim their denaturalization work to target a much broader swath of individuals â anyone who may âpose a potential danger to national security.â
The directive appears to be a push towards a larger denaturalization effort that fits with the Trump administrationâs hardline immigration policies. These could leave some of the millions of naturalized American citizens at risk of losing their status and being deported.
âHey, thereâs this guy over here in a big white house who is absolutely endangering national security - drops bombs, threatens allies with invasion, puts drunks in charge of the military - please do something about himâ
Oh, ânational securityâ - I see - I thought you meant national security.
To be fair, thatâs not something I would promote as being an example of how awful his choices have been.
Many major cities do this: have discounted or free entrance to places that are at least partly covered by taxes in that municipality, for the exact same reason: if youâre paying taxes that help maintain a museum, why pay the same entrance fee as a tourist from elsewhere?
But, itâs usually that locals are discounted or get in for free, not that the price remains for the locals and tourists now pay more.
And this meager increase will not help our massive debt, so it shouldnât be considered a line item at all.
ICE officers will now be stationed outside every national park entrance and a detention center on the other side of the gate. But theyâll collect the entrance fee first.
And theyâll build a special theatre to hold these fights, or should because itâs a sport, maybe we should call them âgamesâ. And theyâll expand UFC, so theyâll be allowed to wear armour and weapons, and we can call the combatants murmillones and retarii, and on special occasions theyâll bring in refugees and let them fight lions.
We donât need to reinvent chariot racing: NASCAR already exists.
This doesnât sound horrible, except for rfk leading it.
Additional America 250 celebrations announced by President Trump at the kick-off celebration include the Patriot Games, an athletic competition for high school students across the country.
Led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Patriot Games will be a nationally televised first-of-its-kind youth athletics competition featuring athletes from all 50 states.
Where young people from every district come to the capitol to compete in a televised spectacle for the entertainment of the ruling classes and the education of the workers.
No, yeah, that sounds fine. Iâm 90% sure the javelins arenât barbed, and the discus wonât explode.
