II. DENATURALIZATION: A RADICAL MEASURE IN THE HANDS OF ZEALOTS “To take away a man’s citizenship deprives him of a right no less precious than life or liberty, indeed of one which today comprehends those rights and almost all others.” Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, Klapprott v. United States (concurring opinion, 1949) Introduction President Trump has repeatedly disparaged unauthorized immigrants using derogatory and dehumanizing language.157 As a candidate, he promised to “begin moving them out, Day 1…[in my] first hour in office, those people are gone.”158 Despite the president’s expressions of support for “legal immigration,” his administration’s policies and practices signal otherwise. His administration has granted fewer visas, aggressively pursued a Muslim ban, drastically reduced refugee admissions, terminated the status of hundreds of thousands of temporary protected status (TPS) residents, proposed a regulation that would reject petitions for green cards from those who use public benefits, turned asylum seekers away at ports of entry, and 42 UNMAKING AMERICANS

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