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Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery

2025-12-19 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with The New York Times reporting that officials are seeking 100 to 200 cases per month. The news comes less than two weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case to decide the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship. Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/19/mae_ngai Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@stephanieb1574 2025-12-19

So the whole "they should come in the right way" is exposed as the lie it always was

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@DillyWillow 2025-12-19

Well wait a minute what about his wife and kids?

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@kilburnrs 2025-12-19

You pay taxes. They take your money and use it to hurt people. That’s how

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@CNFakir-Google 2025-12-29

As a refugee and a naturalized US citizen for 45 years here, we never received any handouts, worked hard as laborers at construction sites then as designer (CAD Engineering firms, and paid taxes. Our children finished college (Loans). (Rice, Texas A&M, Houston, Baylor, Yale) Thank you, USA!

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@skincandytattoo78 2025-12-19

Why do they say anything is "against the law" therfore won't happen. That is false. This administration does illegal things constantly with zero action taken to stop them

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@Msmorningsunrise 2025-12-23

What a huge terrible waste of taxpayer's money!!! Oh wait, I forgot, Trump doesn't think taxpayers should get any say in where the money goes....hey, isn't this taxation without representation?

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@Thanksfortheupdate4508 2025-12-19

Oh Lord! Crazy times!

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@HighElevationDessert 2025-12-20

This is real rich coming from this corrupt administration and trumps pardons of the worst people.

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@svetlageorgieva3054 2026-01-10

Half of US citizens voted for this....this is what hate leads to. You get burned by it, too.

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@AUHC-m2f 2025-12-30

At the end of the day, he is in power to do whatever he wants and congress nor the supreme court will go against him.

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