Standing Groups, Warsaw (Mar 29-Apr. 2, 2015), at 19,
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141. Benjamin Weiser, British Man Admits Past in Terror
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nytimes.com/2016/01/09/nyregion/minh-quang-phambritain-man-linked-to-yemeni-militants-plea.html. .
142. Open Society Justice Initiative, supra note 140.
143. Id.
144. Nisha Kapoor, Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st
Century Extremism 87 (2018).
145. Id. at 88.
146. Id.
147. House of Commons Library, Deprivation of British
Citizenship and Withdrawal of Passport Facilities, 2017, H.C.
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148. Tufyal Choudhury, The radicalization of citizenship
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149. Nisha Kapoor & Kasia Narkowicz, Unmaking citizens:
passport removals, pre-emptive policing and the reimagining
of colonial governmentalities, 42 Ethnic and Racial Studies
45, 48 (2017).
150. Id.
151. Don Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway
(B.C.), during Citizenship Act Government Orders, June 3,
2016, https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-6/.
152. Don Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway
(B.C.), during Citizenship Act Government Orders, June 3,
2016, https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-6/.
153. Tu Thanh Ha, Federal Court Voids Canadian
Citizenship Revocation for 312 People, The Globe and Mail
(July 12, 2017), https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/
national/federal-court-voids-canadian-citizenship-revocation-for-312-people/article35675424/.
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158. Id.
159. Civil Division, FY2020 Budget & Performance Plans,
at 16 (Mar. 2019), https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/
file/1143936/download.
160. Civil Division, FY2020 Budget & Performance Plans,
at 26 (Mar. 2019), https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/
file/1143936/download.
161. These former peaks, which are reflected in the
higher averages under the Reagan and George W. Bush
administrations, may be attributable to the passage of the
1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which
pressed for the deportation of all immigrants convicted of
a deportable offenses, and the events of September 11,
2001. See American Immigration Council, The Growth of
the U.S. Deportation Machine – More Immigrants Are Being
“Removed” from the United States Than Ever Before (Mar. 1,
2014), https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/
research/growth-us-deportation-machine. Most
electronic files for civil denaturalization cases are not
accessible through PACER. These files can only be
obtained directly from courthouses across the country.
The findings also present publicly available historical data.
Freedom of Information Act requests filed in December
2018 to three divisions within the Department of Justice
(DOJ) and USCIS, a component of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), concerning the use of
denaturalization, have not yielded significant information.
The Civil Division partially responded to narrowed
requests for historical data, citing 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5)-(6)
exemptions. The Criminal Division of DOJ and Executive
Office of U.S. Attorneys (which house information relating
to criminal denaturalization), and USCIS (which retains
information relating to denaturalization investigations,
statelessness and deportations), did not supply information responsive to the request.
162. Data provided by the U.S. government was organized
by calendar years, thus precise comparisons by presidential administrations was not possible. U.S. presidential
annual terms run from January 20th through January 19th.
The data used to generate this graph do not include the
additional seven cases identified by the Open Society
Justice Initiative in its independent review.
156. Tu Thanh Ha, supra note 153.
163. A 2017 article on § 1425 prosecutions states that 46
criminal denaturalization cases were brought in 2016,
based on data from the Executive Office for United States
Attorneys derived from the United States Attorneys’ Case
Management System. See U.S. Dep’t of Justice Executive
Office for U.S. Attorneys, Civil Immigration Enforcement
and the Office of Immigration Litigation - District Court
Section, volume 65, number 3 (Jul. 2017), https://www.
justice.gov/usao/page/file/984701/download.
157. Michael D. Shear & Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Stoking
Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration
164. Drug dealers, criminals, rapists: What Trump thinks of
Mexicans, BBC News (Aug.31, 2016), https://www.bbc.
154. Id.
155. Hassouna v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration),
[2017] 4 FCR 555, 2017 FC 473 (CanLII), http://canlii.ca/t/
h4052.
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