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315. Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Keep the Path to
Citizenship Open – Tell USCIS to Reject the Proposed Changes
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316. See e.g., Carlotta Mohamed, LIC Clinic Helps
Immigrants Apply for Citizenship, Times Ledger News (Aug.
8, 2018), https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2018/31/
naturalizationclinic_2018_08_03_q.html (“there is now a
general feeling of fear about becoming denaturalized,
since it’s a risky time to apply for citizenship”).
317. John Ganz, Trump’s New Target in the Politics of Fear:
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nytimes.com/2018/07/23/opinion/trump-birthright-citizenship-mccarthy.html.
318. INA § 340(d); 8 USC § 1451(d).
319. Nikki Marquez & Eric Cohen, Denaturalization – Understanding the Process and Recent Increases in Denaturalization Efforts, ILRC, at 10 (Dec. 2018), https://www.ilrc.
org/sites/default/files/resources/denaturalization_und_
prcs_rcnt_effrts-20181221.pdf.
320. 8 USC § 1451(d) (emphasis added).
321. USCIS, Policy Manual Part L, Chapter 3 – Effects of
Revocation of Naturalization, C(1)-(2), https://www.uscis.
gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-3#footnotelink-3.
322. Nikki Marquez & Eric Cohen, supra note 319, at 11.
323. Sanders v. Clark, 76 F. Supp. 489, 491 (E.D. Pa. 1948).
324. U.S. ex rel. Harrington v. Schlotfeldt, 136 F.2d 935, 939
(7th Cir. 1943).
325. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Office of Investigations, Denaturalization Investigations
Handbook, OI HB 08-01, at 11 (Jan. 15, 2008), https://
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Denaturalization-full-hsi.pdf. In its FOIA request, the
Justice Initiative sought information regarding the
number of derivative citizens whose citizenship had been
revoked every year since 1948, along with any policies
pertaining to the practice of revoking derivative citizenship. Only the Civil Division complied with its requirement to respond to the request, but stated that it “does not
maintain…records regarding derivatives.” Email from
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Justice Initiative).
326. Interview notes on file with the Open Society Justice
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327. See, e.g., INA § 101(a)(23) (“‘naturalization’ means the
conferring of nationality . . . on a person after birth, by any
means whatsoever”).
328. 1954 United Nations Convention relating to the
Status of Stateless Persons, Article 1(1).
329. UN News, “12 million” Stateless People Globally, Warns
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330. Due to a lack of reliable, comprehensive data on
stateless individuals in the United States, this number is
undetermined. UNHCR & Open Society Justice Initiative,
Citizens of Nowhere: Solutions for the Stateless in the U.S., at 1
(Dec. 2012), https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/
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331. See UNHCR & Open Society Justice Initiative,
Citizens of Nowhere: Solutions for the Stateless in the U.S., at
23 (Dec. 2012), https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/about-us/
background/56fbfcea4/citizens-of-nowhere-solutionsfor-the-stateless-in-the-us.html. Because the U.S.
Constitution and subsequently enacted laws on acquisition by birth are generally inclusive, the laws of the United
States do not “create” stateless individuals and the jus soli
provision of the Fourteenth Amendment in particular
ensures that statelessness is not passed from one
generation to the next for children born in the United
States.
332. See 12 USCIS, Policy Manual Part H, Children of U.S.
Citizens, Chapter 3 – United States Citizens at Birth (INA 301
and 309) (June 6, 2019), https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-h-chapter-3#footnote-4
(“Until the Act of October 10, 1978, persons who had
acquired U.S. citizenship through birth outside of the
United States to one U.S. citizen parent had to meet
certain physical presence requirements to retain their
citizenship. This legislation eliminated retention
requirements for persons who were born after October 10,
1952. There may be cases where a person who was born
before that date, and therefore subject to the retention
requirements, may have failed to retain citizenship.”). In
Rogers v. Bellei, 401 U.S. 815 (1971), the Supreme Court
upheld distinctions between citizens born in the United
States and citizens born abroad to American parents on
the ground that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship
Clause only covers citizens born or naturalized in the
United States. Id. at 830.
333. See UNHCR, Handbook on Protection of Stateless
Persons (2014).
334. See World Bank, 1.1 Billion ‘Invisible’ People without ID
are Priority for new High Level Advisory Council on
Identification for Development, Press Release (Oct. 12,
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