It is if you were naturalized
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Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Friday spent more time on Friday on one item I mentioned in passing from Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving night rants: denaturalization.
Favreau tweeted:
People aren’t focused enough on the word “denaturalize” here
The President says that he will revoke the *citizenship* of Americans who weren’t born here if he and @StephenM determine decide they need to go.
Denaturalization is a rare and legally difficult process that Miller and white nationalists like Nick Fuentes have been pushing to “supercharge” the process for years now.
But as Trump makes clear by citing the number 53 million – which includes foreign-born CITIZENS – any American who wasn’t born here is now, at least in the eyes of the government, at risk of deportation.
Xenophobia on steroids
Yes, Trump, Stephen Miller, and their Project 2025 accomplices want to “adjust” the U.S. population through mass deportations. They mean to keep the “wrong” people from diluting the political strength of the shrinking white-Christian majority. Mark Steyn’s “It’s the Demography, Stupid” sounded this alarm in the Wall Street Journal back in 2006. He wrote of how the Muslim birthrate in Europe threatened western civilization and let white-Christian America read between the lines for what demographic change would mean here.
As slippery slopes go, this one is motor oil on teflon. America was still in its post-September 11 moral panic over Islam in 2006. Mexicans and other brown-skinned immigrants were only temporarily eclipsed as the demographic bogeymen. Not to worry, Lou Dobbs was already mentioning illegal immigration in most of his shows, backed up on Fox News by Bill O’Reilly and by Glenn Beck on CNN. Xenophobia had an audience among Real Americans™.
Trump began his first term trying to ban Muslim visitors and immigrants from the U.S. He has since taken his xenophobia beyond brown-skinned Latinos and Muslims. The gilded fan of racehorse theory now want so declare any non-native-born Americans not to be real citizens. (Tough break for Ted Cruz, notes one X user.) Trump means to ethnically cleanse the country of them too:
Trump declared his intent to “remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States” (including the stray European), to “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility,” and to “deport any foreign national who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible” with Western (read: white) civilization. Trump declared a program of “REVERSE MIGRATION” (read: ethnic cleansing).
Ron Brownstein adds (brackets mine):
Per @pewresearch 46% of US foreign born are naturalized citizens. They are 13% of workforce & per @AP Votecast were 7% of voters (which would translate into 11 [million] voters) Trump not only threatens to denaturalize them but says they’re mostly on welfare or criminals, mentally ill
This represents a kind of “patriotic” fundamentalism. (It’s not enough for Christian fundies that you accept Jesus as your savior. If you don’t subscribe to their sect’s particular set of beliefs, you go to hell on a technicality, heathen.) Trump not only wants to eliminate the birthright citizenship guarantee in “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” he now wants to eliminate the naturalized part as well. Under Trump and Miller, America will be purged and purified.
Give them time and they’ll try to abolish the 15th Amendment too.
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