That advertised HUGE immigration crackdown probably won’t be so BIG….

Trump’s flunky Stephen Millwer says he wants to go after just about ‘Anybody’ that wasn’t born in America….

Hmmmm?

Starting with Melania Trump?….

And

Eton Musk?

President-elect Trump’s incoming administration is expected to take aim at legal immigration in addition to cracking down on the illegal variety, slowing the pace of application approvals and redirecting resources to look for fraud in old applications, including naturalizations.

The first Trump administration pushed for more denaturalizations, an initiative that incoming White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has said will be “supercharged” the second time around.

Though that effort is primed to make a big media impact, it’s unlikely to make a statistically significant dent in immigrant populations….

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Though denaturalizations are exceedingly rare, the first Trump administration made at least two major efforts to put them in the spotlight.

In 2018, Francis Cissna, then-director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the agency was hiring a team of lawyers to refer 1,600 cases of naturalization fraud to the Department of Justice (DOJ). And in 2020, the DOJ launched its own denaturalization initiative, looking to push more cases through court.

At the time, CNN reported the DOJ had filed a total of 228 cases between 2008 and 2020, 94 of which were filed during the first three years of the Trump administration….

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Musk, for example, who allegedly worked illegally on a student visa and has publicly discussed his use of illegal drugs, could theoretically face scrutiny over the legality of his path to citizenship under a strict interpretation of the rules. Another famous potential target: Prince Harry, who has been attacked by the conservative Heritage Foundation over his own immigration process and use of illicit drugs….

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“I think what we’re going to see in the second Trump administration is a continuation of attempts that started the first administration to cut legal immigration through various means. We’re likely to be surprised at some of the actions, but I think the overall goal will be to have less legal immigration, and over the course of the coming decades, that could even be felt,” Anderson said.

“But in the more immediate term, you’re likely to see a lot of disappointed Americans who are looking to sponsor loved ones. You’re going to see some disappointed employers, and you’re very likely to see American consumers not able to get some of the services they want to be provided, being provided for them,” he added.

While denaturalizations are unlikely to have a demographic impact by themselves, some economists fear reduced immigration could slow the broader economy….

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