WongKaKui

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Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] WongKaKui@piefed.social 39 points 4 days ago

How I feel right now as a naturalized US citizen:

collapsed inline media(alt text: "(chuckles) I'm in danger." meme)

P.S. It's even more complicated in my situation, since my citizenship is technically called derived citizenship which mean I have citizenship because it comes from the fact that my mother became a citizen when I was a was under 18 so I automatically got citizenship status. I'm not a lawyer, but a quick search online apparantly says if my mother somehow gets denatualized, I could lose it too, through no fault of my own.

So... yea... mom pls don't do weird shady shit... (I don't know if she has any "skeletons in the closet")

👀

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Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship (www.nytimes.com)
 

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The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, according to internal guidance obtained by The New York Times, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year. If the cases are successful, it would represent a massive escalation of denaturalization in the modern era, experts said. By comparison, between 2017 and this year to date, there had been just over 120 cases filed, according to the Justice Department.

Under federal law, people may be denaturalized only if they committed fraud while applying for citizenship, or in a few other narrow circumstances. But the Trump administration has shown a zeal for using every tool at its disposal to target legal and illegal immigrants, leading activists to warn that such a campaign could sweep up people who had made honest mistakes on their citizenship paperwork and sow fear among law-abiding Americans.

“Imposing arbitrary numerical targets on denaturalization cases risks politicizing citizenship revocation,” said Sarah Pierce, a former U.S.C.I.S. official. “And requiring monthly quotas that are 10 times higher than the total annual number of denaturalizations in recent years turns a serious and rare tool into a blunt instrument and fuels unnecessary fear and uncertainty for the millions of naturalized Americans.”

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Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China (www.nytimes.com)
 

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A father and his 6-year-old son who were separated by immigration officials in New York City have been deported to China, weeks after their case drew outrage.

The child, Yuanxin Zheng, is among the youngest migrants in New York to be taken from a parent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials during a routine check-in. He and his father, Fei Zheng, who lived in Queens, were detained on Nov. 26; President Trump’s deportation crackdown has swept up increasing numbers of migrant families and children.

“We are happy to report we were able to remove the family back to their home country,” Ms. McLaughlin wrote in an email.

(okay pause wtf. "happy" someone getting sent to a country they fled? the fuck?)

“It is quite sad,” Ms. Spector said on Friday. “He came here wanting to give his son a different and better life than he might have had in China. That’s what they were coming for. And they had a lot to offer.”

Mr. Zheng told federal agents that he had come to America because he was afraid of being tortured in his native China.

Mr. Zheng does not have a criminal history, according to government records.

What a depressing story...

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] WongKaKui@piefed.social 32 points 3 weeks ago

As a Chinese American, this resonates with me so much, I feel them. I've been through those similar footsteps as that kid, I was about the same age when I first got here, I was in second grade. But I've never been separated like that... I mean... I feel sad when I was in school, in an environment where almost nobody spoke my language (besides like a few classmates that were born here and grew up bilingual), and I felt alone, and my mother would pick me up from school like very late from the after school program that ran until 6PM, being separated from parents for just a few hours was already anxiery inducing enough, but this kid is now facing much worse than I ever did. I was also in NYC, so I can almost picture that scene... of being alone, and scared. I mean being separated like that, for extended period of time... who know how long this could be... must be terrifying, leaving your home country and trying to find a better life... only to get rejected by the country you are trying seeking help in.

My family are legal, I'm a US Citizen now, but still, imagine if this admin was in power back around 2010s when I first arrived and didn't have citizenship status... and on that topic, my dad is still not a citizen yet (English is hard for adults)... so um... we could still theoretically get separated at any moment if this admin tries anything... 👀

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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say (www.thecity.nyc)
 

ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.

The father and son spent several weeks inside a family ICE detention center after they first entered the country and were released on parole in early summer. They were arrested again at an August ICE check-in and returned to Dilley Immigration Processing Center, a detention center for families with children, where the two had previously been held.

In September, at an immigration court hearing while they were detained, a judge administratively closed their asylum case, according to immigration court records. Under prior administrations, would have been seen as a positive step and indicated that DHS wasn’t actively seeking the person’s deportation.

And just over a month later, on Oct. 24, the father and son were released on a year-long parole, according to a copy of their DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement parole document reviewed by THE CITY. They were required to return for an ICE check-in in early December, according to the document.

“ICE may also terminate parole on notice prior to the automatic termination date,” the document warned. “Parole is entirely within the discretion of ICE and can be terminated at any time and for any reason.”

Despite the uncertainty, the two were settling into life in New York City, living at a family shelter in Queens, while Yuanxin had started first grade at P.S. 166Q in Astoria, according to Spector.

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