Denaturalization Cases Surge as Record Numbers Face Losing US Citizenship
Trump has ramped up a denaturalization push as lawsuits seeking to revoke U.S. citizenship reach highest level in decades.
The Trump administration is intensifying its efforts to revoke U.S. citizenship from naturalized Americans, with a notable surge in denaturalization lawsuits filed this year. As of July 2026, at least 105 civil denaturalization lawsuits have been filed in federal district courts, with July alone accounting for 50 cases, according to data from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
Historically, approximately 125 such lawsuits were filed nationwide between 2008 and 2025. This represents a significant uptick in the government's utilization of denaturalization proceedings, a civil legal process through which authorities seek to revoke citizenship that has already been granted.
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