Trump Administration Sets Quota to Strip Citizenship from Over 1,000 Naturalized Americans in 2026

The Trump administration set a goal to denaturalize over a thousand naturalized US citizens in fiscal year 2026, against a historical average of 11 denaturalization cases opened per year from 1990 to 2017 (Immigrant Legal Resource Center figure, as Truthout reports it). New USCIS guidance, reported by The New York Times in December 2025, directs USCIS field offices to ‘supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month.’ The scale of planned denaturalization represents a dramatic expansion of efforts to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans, raising concerns about due process and the weaponization of bureaucratic errors to strip citizenship.