Denaturalization has always been possible under the Immigration and Nationality Act. For decades, however, prosecutors have treated it as a last resort, largely reserved for war criminals, spies, and those linked to terrorism.

The law is clear under Section 340(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1451(a)): if someone obtained citizenship illegally or through concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation, the government can ask a federal judge to revoke the order of naturalization and cancel the certificate.

The Trump administration is intensifying efforts against naturalized U.S. citizens who concealed criminal records or lied on their citizenship applications.

On July 20, the Department of Justice announced it had filed denaturalization actions against 10 individuals accused of serious offenses, including child sexual abuse, health care fraud, and drug trafficking.

Two weeks later, on August 3, the DOJ announced a second, larger batch of 25 cases filed between July 20 and August 3 against individuals accused of attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, aggravated assault and battery, and aggravated sexual assault of a child.

The official release, titled “Justice Department Files Record 25 Denaturalization Cases Against Naturalized Criminals Including Attempted Murderers, Spousal Abusers, and Child Sex Offenders,” details complaints filed between July 20 and August 3 against individuals from 17 countries.

According to the release, these people secured their citizenship through fraud or by concealing everything from child sex abuse and attempted murder to drug trafficking, major fraud schemes, identity fraud, and domestic violence.

Since President Donald J. Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025, the department has filed 123 civil denaturalization complaints, the most in recorded history.

In the past, fewer than a dozen per year would occur. Between 1990 and 2017 the government averaged about 11 cases a year.

Justice Department leadership issued an internal memo in June 2025 directing civil litigators to prioritize these cases, and by December 2025 USCIS was told to start referring up to 200 potential files a month. It was issued by Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate and is titled “Civil Division Enforcement Priorities.”

Previously, most civil denaturalization cases were handled by a small specialized unit inside the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL) in Washington, D.C. That unit coordinated and often litigated the cases, sometimes with local U.S. Attorney’s Offices assisting.

Now, to handle the much larger volume, the DOJ is spreading the cases out to civil prosecutors around 39 regional offices of the U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country. So the work has moved from a centralized specialized team to many local federal prosecutor offices.

The latest cases involve child sexual abuse, Medicare fraud, identity theft, Green-card marriages, attempted murder, and serious domestic violence.

The administration has already secured wins in a number of the earlier cases, with the rest still moving forward.

On November 2, 2017, nearly six months after President Donald J. Trump fired him, former FBI Director James Comey tweeted about the cover of his forthcoming book and then added:

“Check the actual cover. I’m all about Oxford commas.”

At the time it looked like a corny sentiment from the former Director.

In light of this week’s declassified documents, it looks like something else entirely.

Those documents reveal that one week after the firing, the FBI opened a full criminal and counterintelligence investigation into whether the President of the United States had removed his FBI Director because he was acting as a Russian asset.

The code name chosen for that probe was Oxferd Comma, a deliberate misspelling of the Oxford comma, the very stylistic preference for which Comey was already known inside the building.

But once an FBI Director is fired, the briefings stop. Access ends. The secure systems are locked. The Director’s Brief disappears. The need-to-know is extinguished along with the badge.

A former Director does not receive ongoing operational updates on sensitive internal investigations, especially one opened in direct response to his own removal.

No private citizen would have had legitimate knowledge of, let alone any reason to share with James Comey, the code name of a highly compartmentalized probe.

Yet nearly six months later he is publicly invoking the very phrase the Bureau had used. This would not be the last time Comey reached for coded or layered public messaging. That is where the psychology and the culture of the FBI matter.

For most who make a career at the Bureau, the FBI is not a job. It is an identity. Agents and senior officials often serve for decades; the institution becomes family, tribe, and moral compass. Loyalty runs deep, and it runs inward.

Comey was fired over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. That is the stated fact. Yet when the 45th President, an outsider who had never spent a day inside the building and who openly mocked the Bureau’s leadership, removed the Director, it was not experienced inside the institution as a routine personnel action. It was experienced as an attack.

In that environment the formal rules of access can bend. Information that should remain confidential still finds its way through informal channels of loyalty and resentment.

The most plausible reading is that someone still inside, who viewed Comey as one of their own, made sure the former Director understood the name the Bureau had chosen for its response.

Comey’s November tweet is not proof of a grand conspiracy. It is evidence of how tenaciously the FBI’s internal culture, what many now call the deep state, can outlast the badge.

When an outsider fires the Director, the Bureau’s tribal defenses activate. And sometimes that system still finds a way to speak to the man it lost.

The only question left is not whether Comey knew, it is how he came to know, and how many people inside the building made sure he did.

Nearly eight years later, the same man arranged seashells on a beach to spell 86 47.

The message was no longer subliminal.

It was just the same impulse, this time, written in the sand.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on July 29, 2026, that ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working with the DHS Center for Countering Human Trafficking and federal, state, and local partners, arrested 905 suspects and rescued 180 victims during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

This enforcement focused on host cities across the country as millions of fans gathered for various tournaments leading up to and including the World Cup.

Of those rescued, 150 were adults and 30 were juveniles.

Officials noted that major sporting events often attract criminal networks exploiting tourism and demand for commercial sex.

Investigators used undercover work, surveillance, and online monitoring to disrupt these enterprises, while victims received medical care, shelter, and counseling.

In one key case under Operation Midnight at Paris, HSI agents on July 24 executed eight federal arrest warrants tied to the Paris Adult Bookstore in Dallas.

The eight suspects are:

• Montre Lamont Mason, also known as “Trey” or “Unc”
• Eileen Mason, also known as “Mama” or “Ma”
• Trelynn Love Mason, also known as “NuNu”
• Aaron Tyrone Betford
• Larry Jones, also known as “Big Guy”
• Krishenda Doss
• Reginald Rose
• Antonio Dario Osorio-Avelar

According to multiple reports, this business operated as a covert brothel for more than twenty years. The probe, launched three years ago, uncovered that thousands of adults and minors were sold for sex through the establishment, with dozens of victims identified.

One victim, U.S. Army veteran Caleigha Zangari, was murdered in 2024 after being kidnapped from the bookstore’s parking lot; a defendant in that related case was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The eight suspects face charges including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking through force, fraud, and coercion, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.  The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.

In another operation on June 23, HSI San Francisco, working with the FBI and San Francisco Police Department, rescued two female minor victims of human trafficking. One of them had been reported missing from Bakersfield, California, since November 2025.

In the Atlanta area, Operation Red Card, a six-week multi-agency effort led by HSI Atlanta, produced 153 arrests, 13 for human trafficking, 11 for child exploitation, and 129 for related offenses, and identified 54 trafficking victims, 27 of whom accepted support services.

In South Florida, authorities conducted 28 undercover operations during matches in Miami, resulting in 178 arrests, 23 for human trafficking and about 39 for soliciting sex, and the identification of 17 potential trafficking victims, some of whom had been brought from other states specifically for the event.

In the New York metropolitan area, efforts linked to matches at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey helped rescue 43 victims, including seven minors; the NYPD alone reported 89 arrests and support for dozens of survivors.

DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis credited the work of agents:

“While Americans and international visitors were enjoying the FIFA World Cup, the men and women of ICE law enforcement were hard at work cracking down on human trafficking operations in FIFA host cities across the country. Federal law enforcement arrested more than 900 suspects and rescued nearly 200 victims. Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, we are dismantling human trafficking networks.”

More than 700 unauthorized drones were seized, over 50 air missions were conducted, more than 19,000 vehicles were inspected, and hundreds of thousands of counterfeit World Cup items valued at over $33 million were confiscated.

Intellectual property enforcement by HSI resulted in 48 arrests and 164 seizures of counterfeit FIFA World Cup merchandise, including more than 530,000 items with a genuine retail value exceeding $85 million.

Victims identified during the operations were connected to crisis intervention, shelter, medical care, and longer-term support services. FBI-led operations during the same period (June 8–July 19) reported seizing approximately $220,000 in cash and assets linked to trafficking networks.

Progressive Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign took in more than $118,000 from at least 41 people tied to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as reported by Fox News Digital.

The donors included current employees, former staffers, and individuals who have held CAIR board or leadership posts, who donated in their individual capacities. The figure comes from a review of federal campaign records.

These findings come just after El-Sayed’s narrow primary victory over Rep. Haley Stevens, roughly 48.5% to 47.5%.

These monies were not confined to just Michigan. Records indicate contributions from CAIR-affiliated individuals connected to chapters in California, Arizona, Georgia, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, and Ohio.

One CAIR-Michigan board member, Muzammil Ahmed, alone gave $11,600. California governance board members and a former national board chair also appear.

El-Sayed has consistently reiterated “getting money out of politics” as a central message throughout his campaign.

That stance sits alongside a donor list that includes some of CAIR’s most senior figures, among them National Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, and Vice Chair Emad Sabbah.

Also on the list is El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Jukaku Tayeb, a CAIR-Michigan board member and a dual role that raises legitimate questions about both the closeness of the relationship and the scale of financial backing from within his inner circle.

Tayeb was listed as the highest financial supporter of a super PAC that has spent money on El-Sayed’s behalf. He also sits on the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America, an organization that has faced its own questions about historical funding links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014. More recently, the governors of Texas and Florida have formally labeled the group a terrorist organization. CAIR has challenged those designations in court, calling them unconstitutional and baseless.

Federal prosecutors named the organization an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation case, the largest terrorism-financing prosecution in U.S. history.

Prosecutors argued it formed part of a network supporting Hamas inside the United States. CAIR was never charged and has consistently denied the allegations, pointing to statements condemning terrorism and antisemitism.

Among the donors to Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed are CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, whose name appears in FEC filings as Nehad Hammad.

Awad drew widespread criticism after remarks following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in which he said he was “happy” to see Hamas break out of Gaza and argued that Israel, as an occupying power, lacked a right to self-defense.

El-Sayed’s connections to the organization predate the current fundraising cycle. In 2022 he spoke at a CAIR event and received payment for the appearance. During that talk he criticized an Oklahoma ban on Sharia law and compared it to the Trail of Tears.

El-Sayed will now go head-to-head against former Republican congressman Mike Rogers in the November general election for the open Senate seat.

I don’t like doing this, but it needs to be done. People keep sending me this video; it is nonsense. Steve Bannon and John Solomon broadcast a conversation targeting John Thune, Tom Cotton and Todd Blanche for obstructing the release of transcripts held in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).

What Solomon reports in this interview is disconnected from the process that exists. Solomon wants the transcripts of former CIA Director John Brennan released. Fine, no problem. Except Solomon apparently doesn’t understand the process to gain declassification of an equity that is not within the executive branch. The transcript is in the legislative branch.

There are separation of powers issues, equity issues and stakeholder issues that create a process that needs to be followed. This is the same process that was used to gain the Michael Atkinson transcript from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). Solomon and Joe diGenova can follow the process and succeed, just like I did. Or Solomon and diGenova can gnash their teeth, create outrage and fail.

This nonsense is why trusting John Solomon is a fool’s errand, and the reason why I have suspected Solomon of performance theater for several years. His teaming up with Steve Bannon, well, it just tracks.

Tick-Tock… Nothing. I digress.

First, assuming they have security clearances, John Solomon and/or Joe diGenova can ask SSCI Chairman Tom Cotton to let them read the Brennan transcript in the SSCI secured compartmented intelligence facility (scif). There is nothing stopping them, or anyone else with a clearance, from reading the transcript; assuming Cotton would permit it (he would). That’s the first point.

Second, after their review they can ask the SSCI to hold a senate vote to release the legislative branch equity to the executive branch, with a classification review that might need redactions based on stakeholder equity. [Same process as the Atkinson transcript]. The Senate can then vote to release it and start the process.

I am not a defender of John Thune or Tom Cotton; the exact opposite is true. However, you don’t defeat the silo system by attacking it at the point of their greatest strength. You obtain the material by following the process and forcing compliance with due diligence [just like the Atkinson transcript].

There is a separation of powers issue. The transcript belongs to the legislative branch, not the executive branch. The executive needs to request it from the legislative. Then it needs to be reviewed by IC stakeholders (ODNI and CIA) for classification review and/or redactions. Then it is returned to the SSCI who determine how to release it – from their own committee or to the DNI for release.

In current disposition the President cannot declassify something the executive branch doesn’t have.

As to the substance of Solomon’s previous release, the “Oxferd C0mma” documents, as I said last night nothing about that release is substantively new.

FBI General Counsel James Baker testified in two sessions to the House Intelligence Committee. In the second session transcript (released by Doug Collins – READ HERE) James Baker notes the 2nd FBI investigation was planned *BEFORE* FBI Director James Comey was fired. When Comey was fired, the optimal window to open the investigation was created for Andrew McCabe.

Rosenstein agreed to the plan, and “Oxferd C0mma” was triggered on 5/16/17. The objective of the EC signed by James Baker contained spurious and obtuse evidence in text because the real goal of the FBI/DOJ was to open a Special Counsel investigation. In essence, Oxferd C0mma was the placeholder for Mueller.

The group talked about the plan before Comey was fired. Comey’s termination simply triggered the timing. All of this was known nine years ago, that’s why to CTH readers none of this is new.

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Those who did the deepest dives knew the investigation that opened 5/16/17 was planned before Comey was fired, and Comey’s termination was just the trigger window of the process to deliver Mueller… which was really what “Oxferd C0mma” was about.

Additionally, James Baker -who signed the EC- testified about the process to open the second investigation. It’s in his day #2 transcript. The firing of Comey just triggered the best window for the investigation they already planned.

So, yes “Oxferd C0mma” is new to people like John Solomon, but old news for those who did the research at the time. Again, go read Baker’s testimony (link above).

You will note the Oxferd COmma investigation was triggered on May 16, 2017:

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This was the exact same day when Rosenstein took Robert Mueller to the White House.

Through a FOIA request Judicial Watch received Rod Rosenstein’s email communication around the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller [See Here]. The content further confirms when Rosenstein took Mueller to the White House on May 16th, 2017, the purpose was for Mueller to preview his target, President Trump.

Rosenstein took Mueller to visit Jeff Sessions on May 13th, the specifics of that email likely concern keeping prior private conversations out of the discussion with Sessions.

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If we insert the Rosenstein email conversation into our timeline, the picture is clear.

Perhaps the most important aspect is how DAG Rosenstein took Robert Mueller to the White House on May 16th, to interview President Trump.  The decision to appoint Mueller as special counsel was predetermined prior to the White House visit:

♦James Comey was fired at approximately 5:00pm EST on Tuesday May 9th, 2017. The next morning, less than 15 hours after Comey was fired, Rosenstein contacted Robert Mueller about the special counsel appointment.

During the congressional testimony of Robert Mueller, Representative Andy Biggs noted evidence of a phone call between Mueller and Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday May 10th, 2017, at 7:45am.

From the Judicial Watch FOIA release, we can see that following the 7:45am phone call Rod Rosenstein received contact info from Mueller’s asst (8:09am), and Rosenstein emailed his assistant at 8:13am with instructions to contact Mueller’s asst and set up a meeting for Friday May 12th:

Marcia Murphy, from the Office of the DAG, then followed through and set up a meeting for 8:00am, Friday May 12th at Main Justice, between Rosenstein and Mueller:

Following that May 12th 8:00am meeting with Mueller, Rod Rosenstein then met with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe Andrew McCabe.  –  According to McCabe:

… “[Rosenstein] asked for my thoughts about whether we needed a special counsel to oversee the Russia case. I said I thought it would help the investigation’s credibility. Later that day, I went to see Rosenstein again. This is the gist of what I said: I feel strongly that the investigation would be best served by having a special counsel.” (link)

Later that night (May 12th), at 9:15pm Rosenstein then emails Robert Mueller: “I assume you realize the boss and his staff do not know about our discussions.”

That email is directly related to a meeting scheduled on Saturday May 13th between Rosenstein, Mueller and Jeff Sessions; which is confirmed in the Andy Biggs questioning.

♦Sunday May 14th –  Comey transmitted copies of Memos 2, 4, and 6, and a partially redacted copy of Memo 7 to Patrick Fitzgerald, who was one of Comey’s personal attorneys.  Fitzgerald received the email and PDF attachment from Comey at 2:27 p.m. on May 14, 2017, per the IG report.

♦Monday May 15th, McCabe states he and Rosenstein conferred again about the Special Counsel approach. McCabe: “I brought the matter up with him again after the weekend.”

On this same day was when James Rybicki called SSA Whistleblower to notify him of Comey’s memos. The memos were “stored” in a “reception area“, and in locked drawers in James Rybicki’s office.

♦Tuesday May 16th – Per the IG report: “On the morning of May 16, Comey took digital photographs of both pages of Memo 4 with his personal cell phone. Comey then sent both photographs, via text message, to Richman.

Back in Main Justice, at 12:30pm, Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, Jim Crowell and Tashina Guahar all appear to be part of this meeting.  I should note that alternate documentary evidence, gathered over the past two years, supports the content of this McCabe memo.  Including texts between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok:

[Sidebar: pay attention to the *current* redactions; they appear to be placed by existing DOJ officials in an effort to protect Rod Rosenstein for his duplicity in: (A) running the Mueller sting operation at the white house on the same day; (B) the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel, which was predetermined before the Oval Office meeting.]

While McCabe was writing this afternoon memo, still May 16th, Rod Rosenstein took Robert Mueller to the White House for a meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump and VP Mike Pence.

After six days of phone calls, emails and in person meetings, this visit to the White House was clearly Rod Rosenstein introducing Robert Mueller to the target of the investigation.  Rosenstein already knew he was going to appoint Mueller; and Mueller, along with the small group in the FBI, already knew Mueller was going to be appointed.

Later that night (May 16th), following the Mueller visit, there was a debriefing session back at Main Justice.  This evening meeting appears to be Lisa Page, Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe; along with Tashina Gauhar again taking notes.

♦ Wednesday May 17th, 2017:  Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe go to brief the congressional “Gang-of-Eight”: Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Devin Nunes, Adam Schiff, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Richard Burr and Mark Warner.

… […] “On the afternoon of May 17, Rosenstein and I sat at the end of a long conference table in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol. We were there to brief the so-called Gang of Eight—the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate and the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Rosenstein had, I knew, made a decision to appoint a special counsel in the Russia case.”

[…] “After reminding the committee of how the investigation began, I told them of additional steps we had taken. Then Rod took over and announced that he had appointed a special counsel to pursue the Russia investigation, and that the special counsel was Robert Mueller.” (link)

Immediately following this May 17, 2017, Go8 briefing, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein notified the public of the special counsel appointment.

According to President Trump’s Attorney John Dowd, the White House was stunned by the decision. [Link] Coincidentally, AG Jeff Sessions was in the Oval Office for unrelated business when White House counsel Don McGahn came in and informed the group.

Jeff Sessions immediately offered his resignation, and Session’s Chief-of-Staff Jody Hunt went back to the Main Justice office to ask Rosenstein what the hell was going on.

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting birth tourism, another aggressive step in his administration’s effort to restore integrity to America’s immigration system. The order directs federal agencies to prevent foreign nationals from exploiting temporary visas for the primary purpose of giving birth in the United States and securing automatic citizenship advantages for their children.

The administration notes that the practice abuses immigration law, burdens taxpayers and turns American citizenship into a commodity for wealthy foreigners. President Trump’s move fits a broader immigration agenda built around enforcement, deterrence and the principle that entry into the United States is a privilege governed by American law—not a loophole to be manipulated for long-term benefits.

Birth tourism has long highlighted the absurdities of a system in which individuals can enter temporarily, deliver a child on U.S. soil and potentially establish future immigration advantages for an entire family. Communist China certainly has been adept and exploiting this ridiculous system in order to hasten their infiltration plans.

The Trump administration is right to challenge a practice that undermines public confidence and rewards strategic circumvention of the rules. This move will be important to reversing the demographic backslide that has been underway in America for decades.

America will only remain America if we keep the stock of the country intact. When you import tons of foreigners from the third world, they change the makeup of the nation. They don’t waltz onto our magic dirt and gain our values, and we have seen that demonstrated with the Somalis in Minneapolis.

After years of lax enforcement and bureaucratic excuses, the Trump administration is sending a clear message that citizenship and immigration policy will no longer be treated as tools for gaming the system, and it has been a long time coming.