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DOJ Lawyers Reassigned to Strip Citizenship From Immigrant Families #

Friday, 29 May 2026 · words

A man in a simple suit sitting at a stark metal desk in a dimly lit federal office, surrounded by mountains of manila folders, 35mm documentary photography, natural lighting, 4K.
A man in a simple suit sitting at a stark metal desk in a dimly lit federal office, surrounded by mountains of manila folders, 35mm documentary photography, natural lighting, 4K.

Lawyers from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are clearing their desks to begin work on a mass campaign to strip naturalized Americans of their citizenship. According to reports from Axios and Bloomberg Law, the Department of Justice is reassigning these attorneys to U.S. attorneys’ offices specifically to pursue denaturalization cases against individuals accused of fraud. This administrative pivot occurs as the 'Hollow State' reaches a terminal crisis, with 240,000 Department of Homeland Security employees entering their third week without a paycheck. While the border apparatus starves, the administration is simultaneously launching an 'anti-weaponization fund' to provide a financial safety net for political loyalists. Michael Cohen, the former lawyer turned critic of the president, is reportedly preparing a claim letter to access these federal funds, arguing his legal issues are identical to those the fund was designed to address. This paper identifies a predatory pattern of 'Administrative Arbitrage,' where the state monetizes bureaucratic failure to reward allies while liquidating the legal protections of the vulnerable. The Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation has already seen a third of its staff depart since January 2025, leaving more than 100 vacancies in critical senior roles. In Tennessee, U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw recently dismissed a smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant, calling the prosecution a 'vindictive' abuse of power. Judge Crenshaw noted that authorities were slow to comply with previous rulings protecting Garcia, instead focusing resources on securing a new indictment. In the halls of the Justice Department, the blue glow of computer terminals now illuminates the efforts of a skeleton crew tasked with demographic securitization. The proposed constitutional amendment by Representative Nancy Mace to bar the foreign-born from federal office provides the ideological scaffolding for this campaign. As the administration builds a $1 billion luxury ballroom at the White House, the basic rights of naturalized citizens are being treated as a tradable asset in a political spoils system. The result is a state that has abandoned the governance of the biological floor in favor of an elite aesthetic of exclusion.