The Justice Department (DOJ) announced additional denaturalization operations on June 8, 2026. This operation involves revoking the citizenship of seventeen people nationwide. This marks the biggest denaturalization effort of the past eighteen months.

According to CNN, the U.S. government planned on stripping the individuals of citizenship as part of a zero-tolerance policy towards abuse of the citizenship application process. This isn’t the first time the government moved to denaturalize multiple people at once. At least twelve people were denaturalized in May, 2026.

Traditionally, naturalized citizens can lose their citizenship status if they commit certain crimes. One of these crimes is citizenship fraud. Over the past year and a half, the government pursued revoking the citizenship of individuals found guilty of citizenship fraud. The move is part of a larger immigration enforcement effort that’s defined U.S. immigration policy since January, 2026.

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