ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The Trump administration is pursuing the largest denaturalization push in American history, more than 400 people targeted for having their citizenship stripped. The cases that have been made public are damning: men who abused children, groomed minors, and distributed illicit material while swearing under oath they had committed no crimes.
The legal mechanism being used is not new, and in cases like these, few would argue against accountability. But when volume quotas are set before the cases are identified, when the workload is handed to generalist attorneys in already-strained offices, and when stripping citizenship doesn't even guarantee deportation, the question shifts.
Not whether these men should be held accountable — they should — but whether this is how rigorous law enforcement actually works, or how it breaks. We get into all of it.
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