2026年5月7日 / 美国东部时间早上6:04 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
凤凰城 ——代理司法部长托德·布兰奇周三宣扬特朗普政府扩大取消特定外籍出生美国人公民身份的行动，并对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，其中“很多人”本不应拥有公民身份。
在凤凰城的一次面对面采访中，布兰奇表示，第二届特朗普政府目前正在处理的取消公民身份案件数量超过了过去九年，并坚称通过欺诈手段获得美国公民身份的移民应当“感到担忧”。
“如果你想来这个国家成为公民，却通过欺诈、以非法方式达成目的，你就应该感到担忧，”布兰奇说道。
当被问及这场取消公民身份运动的目标群体是谁时，布兰奇表示：“我们并没有将自己局限于任何特定人群，只是不得不说，很遗憾——我认为未来几天和几周内你们会听到更多相关消息——有很多身为公民的人本不该拥有公民身份。”
布兰奇拒绝透露在此次打击行动中可能丧失公民身份的入籍公民具体人数，此次行动是特朗普政府更严格审查合法移民的整体举措的一部分。
尽管美国移民系统的大部分工作由国土安全部负责，但司法部负责取消入籍公民的公民身份。
这需要一套复杂且极少被使用的法律程序，要说服法官通过联邦法院的民事或刑事程序，剥夺海外出生的美国公民的身份。要取消一名美国公民的身份，司法部必须证明该人通过欺诈手段获得公民身份，例如在申请时撒谎。1990年至2017年间，联邦官员提起的取消公民身份案件略多于300起，年均约11起。
从历史上看，取消公民身份的案件仅限于性质恶劣的案例，主要涉及被指控侵犯人权、暴力犯罪或对国家安全构成威胁的入籍公民。但去年，司法部发布了一份备忘录，指示官员将更广泛类别的人群列为取消公民身份的优先处理对象，包括被指控存在金融欺诈的人。特朗普政府官员还公开宣传加大取消公民身份行动的力度。
这场运动引发了部分入籍公民的担忧，2023年入籍公民人数达2400万。当被问及这些担忧时，布兰奇表示，如果没有非法获得公民身份，他不明白“他们为何要担忧”。
“我不认为这2400万公民都在担忧，我认为其中只有极少数人会感到担忧。没错，他们确实应该担忧，”他补充道。
布兰奇表示，他不确定这场运动“为何甚至会引发争议”。
“我们不应容忍欺诈，”他说。“我们不应容忍谎言。”
布兰奇指出，针对取消公民身份行动的目标人群，存在一套可以对该程序提出质疑的途径。他承认取消某人的公民身份是“极其严厉的后果”，但同时强调，通过欺诈手段获得该身份本身也是一种“极其恶劣的行为”。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/todd-blanche-individuals-who-are-citizens-who-shouldnt-be/
Blanche says immigrants who committed fraud to become U.S. citizens should worry
May 7, 2026 / 6:04 AM EDT / CBS News
Phoenix — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche touted the Trump administration’s expanded efforts to revoke the citizenship of certain foreign-born Americans on Wednesday, telling CBS News “a lot” of them should not be citizens.
In a sit-down interview in Phoenix, Blanche said the second Trump administration is pursuing more denaturalization cases now than in the last nine years and asserted that immigrants who have obtained American citizenship fraudulently should be “worried.”
“If you’re going to come and become a citizen in this country, but you’re going to do it by fraud, you’re going to do it in a way that’s illegal, you should be worried,” Blanche said.
Asked who is being targeted by the denaturalization campaign, Blanche said, “We are not limiting ourselves to anybody in particular, except to say that unfortunately, and I think you’re going to hear more about this in the coming days and weeks, there are a lot of individuals who are citizens who shouldn’t be.”
Blanche declined to provide a specific number on how many naturalized citizens could lose their citizenship under the crackdown, which is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to more heavily scrutinize legal immigrants.
While most components of the U.S. immigration system are overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department is responsible for revoking the citizenship of naturalized citizens.
That requires a complicated and rarely used legal procedure to persuade judges to denaturalize U.S. citizens born overseas through civil or criminal proceedings in federal court. To denaturalize a U.S. citizen, the Justice Department has to prove that person obtained their citizenship fraudulently, such as by lying on their applications. Between 1990 and 2017, federal officials filed slightly more than 300 denaturalization cases, or an annual average of 11.
Historically, denaturalizations have been limited to egregious cases, mainly involving naturalized citizens accused of being human rights abusers, violent offenders or threats to national security. But last year, the Justice Department published a memo instructing officials to prioritize broader categories of people for denaturalization, including those accused of financial fraud. Trump administration officials have also vocally publicized a push to ramp up denaturalizations.
The campaign has alarmed some naturalized citizens, a population that stood at 24 million in 2023. Asked about those concerns, Blanche said he does not know “why they would be concerned” if they did not illegally obtain their citizenship.
“I don’t think it’s true that those 24 million citizens are worried. I think there’s a very small percentage of them who are worried. And yes, they should be,” he added.
Blanche said he was not sure why the campaign is “even controversial.”
“We shouldn’t tolerate fraud,” he said. “We shouldn’t tolerate lies.”
Blanche noted there’s a process for people who are targets of a denaturalization effort to challenge the procedure. He conceded that revoking someone’s citizenship is a “drastic consequence” but stressed that committing fraud to obtain that citizenship is also a “drastic action.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/todd-blanche-individuals-who-are-citizens-who-shouldnt-be/
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