The Trump administration has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their US citizenship in a recently published justice department memo that directs attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes.
According to the memo, those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases.
And the government has a lighter burden of proof in civil cases than they do in criminal ones.
There had been 12 such deaths during the entire fiscal year that finished at the end of September 2024.
On Friday Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, resigned amid an investigation by the justice department’s civil rights division.
The investigation took aim at the university’s DEI programs and its continuing to consider race and ethnicity in various programs and scholarships.
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