Donald Trump's Denaturalization Plan to STRIP Citizenship.
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there are now warnings that quote no one
is safe and that everybody should be
worried about the potential den
naturalizations and denaturalization
discussions that might be getting
supercharged under Donald Trump's new
Administration in this video I'm going
to break down what denaturalization is
we're going to talk about is this uh
something that applies to you what class
of Citizen are you are you a first class
citizen or are you a second class
citizen citizen not non-citizen we talk
about that and we'll understand a little
bit more why these discussions are
coming up as well as whether or not you
should actually be worried about this
now uh keep in mind I actually have my
passport right here and what's worth
noting is that I was a naturalized
citizen which means I was not actually
born in the country which makes this
particularly an interesting conversation
for me because what if Kevin is subject
to this I'll have to make these videos
from back in my
homeland
Germany
no they're in a recession oh man maybe
that's where the bears belong anyway
anyway let's get into this so here's the
thing a lot of this discussion is going
on because Steven Miller who worked with
Donald Trump in the first Trump
Administration has begun talking about
plans for
supercharging
denaturalization and this has gotten
people crazy on the internet Jack P
writes we used to strip foreign born
anarchists and Communists of their
citizenship and Deport them laws still
on the books just planting seeds that
was an OCT October of
2023 and in October of 2023 also Ste
which is now revived because Donald
Trump has won Donald Trump hasn't
brought this up again but this is being
revived and everybody's talking about it
because now Donald Trump is won it's
being revived because Steven Miller
wrote yes we started a new d
denaturalization project under Donald
Trump in 2025 expect it to be
turbocharged well 2025 is around the
corner and now we got to ask ourselves
what even is
denaturalization so here's how it works
when you come into the country legally
like I did we ended up coming as
temporary residents under a work visa
and in the future after applying for it
we got what's known as a green card this
was through the ins which was the
internal naturalization service that was
before the Department of Homeland
Security was created in 2003
and I still have vivid memories of going
into the ins office and the worker there
taking my fingers and crushing them to
take all my fingerprints I don't know
why it's such a vivid memory but I've
never forgotten it and since then we
were all permanent residents now after I
was a permanent resident for many years
and uh right before I actually a few
years before I ended up getting married
to my wonderful wife Lauren uh I ended
up becoming a citizen by applying i' had
been here for I believe the requirement
is 5 years and I've been here long
enough I I think I applied after frankly
10 years of being a permanent resident
or more than that uh and the reality is
got my citizenship approved after doing
an interview filling out an application
waiting for the period of time not
necessarily in that order but then I
became a citizen which gave me an
American passport as a dual Citizen and
the eligibility to vote in elections be
drafted although I'm too old for that
did you know the draft ends at 26 anyway
uh and obviously serve in jury duty
these are part of our Civic duties uh
well that makes me a naturalized citizen
this is different from a Birthright
citizen if you were born in the United
States you have citizenship through
birth and this would be considered in
the case of
denaturalization a first class
citizenship the reason if you have
citizenship through birth it is
considered first class is because it is
enshrined in the Constitution Natural
Born essentially now the second class
citizenship there really are no classes
of citizenship right now but the reason
people suggests there might be a second
class of citizenship is because if you
were naturalized then that could
potentially mean aha you are subject to
denaturalization so what the heck is
denaturalization well the New York Times
did a great piece on this uh all the way
back in 2020 now I know a lot of people
don't like the New York Times but it
gives you some background on what was
going on during the Trump Administration
and this move to quote bring Justice to
terrorists war criminals sex offenders
and other
frauders now don't worry the problem
goes Way Beyond this and there's a
reason why quote No One Is Safe we're
going to talk about that in just a
moment but basically the justice
department has a way of stripping people
of their citizenship if they commit
crimes and they have that second class
of citizenship in other words they were
naturalized now what crimes could this
potentially apply to like if you run a
stop sign are you going to get kicked
out probably not it's probably going to
apply to things like Affiliates those
who support or work for a terrorist
group genocide and human rights abuses
serious criminal offenses like crimes
against children sexual offenses against
children or other violent crimes against
children or other groups fraud on your
citizenship application and just
straight up
terrorism now why is this a concern for
people because it kind of seems logical
that if you are just not a terrorist you
might not have anything to worry about
here well the concern is a slippery
slope which unfort
in politics it is extremely common for
people who support Donald Trump to
listen to what Trump says and assume the
best and people who do not assume the
best or and don't like Donald Trump they
not only assume the worst but then they
embark on the slippery slope of
fallacious argumentation of suggesting
oh well if he can take your citizenship
away for doing a crime that means no one
is safe because that means any crime
could make you eligible for
denaturalization and subsequent
deportation as you lose your
constitutional rights Donald Trump is
trying to strip your constitutional
rights and everybody should be shaking
in their boots because a dictators about
to take over that's an example of a
slippery slope but it's an argument
that's actually being made right now now
I I promise you I don't want to bore you
with this uh so I'm not going to
actually put you through all of this uh
in fact honestly I don't think I'm going
to put you through any of it but there
so let's talk about the things that
Trump has said he's going to do or
people close to him have said the
administration is going to do number one
is mass deportations of undocumented
immigrants the second
is Dean naturalization we'll leave it
there I'm not going to go into it
because honestly this Rambles on for
like many minutes about denaturalization
and how bad it is and how it's going to
basically apply to
everyone the principle of a slippery
slope argument is you take a basic
argument and then you assume from there
that well if they can Deport terrorists
because that's a crime then they can
Deport people who kill people because
that's a crime and if they can Deport
people and denaturalize people who kill
people and commit a crime then they
could do that to people who steal from a
store and if they can do that to
somebody who steals from a store then
they can do it to somebody who runs a
stop sign or has tinted windows
or
jaywalks and then they argue the extreme
anybody who jaywalks can get
deported that's not what Donald Trump
has said in fact Donald Trump has never
indicated any of that or he has never
done that in fact here's some examples
of deportations followed by or Den
naturalizations followed by deportations
in the past New York Times wrote someone
helped uh uh revoke the citizenship
rights of a Yugoslavian born convicted
war criminal who admitted from her
naturalization application the fact that
she had executed unarmed civilians
during the 1990s Bulan conf
okay did Obama pursue any Den
naturalizations yes Obama did this too
and he didn't get the slippery slope
arguments Obama targeted people who lied
on their applications and committed
other crimes so Obama did this as well
and yes it is true denaturalization
applications in other words referrals
for denaturalization did ramp up under
the Trump administration of the 228
denaturalization cases that were filed
since 2008 going all the way to 2020 so
in a 12-year plan 40% of them so nearly
half were during the Trump
Administration in fact in just those
three years between 2017 and 2020
denaturalization cases Skyrocket at 600%
so yes Donald Trump does like
denaturalization cases and they did you
know Steven Miller at least it's not
Trump but Steven Miller does suggest
they would ramp this up now what's an
example of a trump naturalization or
denaturalization case uh how about when
a naturalized citizen uh was
denaturalized for uh recruiting people
to al-Qaeda in the United States and
then also sexually abused a
seven-year-old family
member okay these are the most extreme
examples that the New York Times could
find to bag on Donald
Trump and unless you're executing
unarmed citizens or recruiting people to
Al-Qaeda and sexually abusing
seven-year-olds in your own
family I don't know that you really need
to be worried about this but it doesn't
stop the H uh well the hyperbolic nature
of the
ACLU the American civil liberties Union
the Trump Administration has launched a
denaturalization operation a project to
strip a large number of Americans from
their citizenship denaturalization is a
drastic measure that should be taken in
the most extreme circumstances only US
citizens uh can be added to a list of
targeted individuals and thereby sending
a message that no one is safe in America
lawful permanent residents may be scared
to pursue citizenship because their
lives could get destroyed and their
citizenship could get taken away along
with their
rights okay ACLU I get it you need some
more uh donations here
but what about rights let's talk about
rights for a moment and understand this
could you lose constitutional rights by
being
denaturalized uh and could people like
Elon Musk be a victim of this or Melania
Trump or my father-in-law or myself well
yeah theoretically yeah because we're
all naturalized citizens uh but okay
let's understand for a moment if you get
denaturalized what kind of rights do you
lose well you may end up getting
convicted first of all in a
denaturalization case in a trial of your
peers but there is a lower burden of
proof required and so this does make it
a concern that potentially political
enemies could use it against people they
don't like to get them denaturalized the
burden of proof is not Beyond A
Reasonable Doubt for a denaturalization
case this is considered a civil case and
is actually as low as just requiring a
burden of proof of clear and convincing
evidence then you can get denaturalized
and once you're denaturalized you could
actually potentially lose some of your
constitutional rights including your
rights to do process or quite frankly
your right to remain silent see once
you're denaturalized now you're no
longer a citizen or a permanent resident
you might lose some of your
constitutional
protections and then get deported or
Worse the slippery slope is is now you
don't have your rights and you're stuck
here and they just beat you until you
talk because you have to because you
have no constitutional rights anymore
all of this I think is Extreme I am a
naturalized citizen and I have zero
concerns over this all this seems highly
overblown uh and um here's an idea just
don't be convicted of quote clear and
convincing evidence of sexually
assaulting 7-year-old children in your
family committing genocide or recruiting
people into terrorism or committing
terrorism and frankly in that case I
think you'll be okay and if you do some
of those
things well God willing I hope you get
denaturalized why not advertise these
things that you told us here I feel like
nobody else knows about this we'll we'll
try a little advertising and see how it
goes congratulations man you have done
so much people love you people look up
to you Kevin pafra there financial
analyst and YouTuber meet Kevin always
great to get your take
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