Oh, Sweetie, The Latest Scandal!

Well, I never! You won't believe the tittle-tattle I heard swirling around town, dear. The President, bless his heart, apparently has his sights set on yanking away citizenship from over a thousand naturalized Americans next year! Can you imagine such a thing?

It's all part of this big hullabaloo about immigration, but a thousand people? Heavens to Betsy, that's practically a whole town! They're saying the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, bless their busy little hearts, have been told to find 100 to 200 cases a month for denaturalization. A month!

Honestly, What Are They Thinking?

Now, honey, you know your old grandma loves a good dramatic story, but this one just takes the cake! Back in my day, once you became a citizen, that was it! You were in. This whole "denaturalization" thing used to be as rare as a quiet Sunday dinner at my house.

The Justice Department, they say, has only filed about 120 of these cases since 2017. And before that? Only eleven a year on average! So, for them to suddenly want thousands? Oh sweetie, they must be sipping something stronger than tea over there if they think that's going to be easy-peasy lemon-squeezy. Such an overreach!

But What's Really Going On, Dear?

Now, let's get down to brass tacks, because your grandma always gets to the bottom of things. These experts, the smarty-pants folks who know all about the law, are saying this big plan is practically impossible to pull off through normal channels.

You see, only the federal courts can actually strip someone of their citizenship. And darling, the bar for doing that is higher than my bridge club's expectations for a perfect hand! It usually only happens if someone got their citizenship through outright fraud. Not just because someone decided they didn't like your face, bless their hearts.

One former Department of Homeland Security official, Morgan Bailey, even said it would be "virtually impossible" to process all these cases. It’s not like they can just snap their fingers and make it so. The legal standards haven't magically changed for them, no matter how much they might wish it.

Well, I Just Can't Even Today!

Honestly, sweetie, this whole thing just makes my hair stand on end. They're doing this not because it's easy or even truly feasible, but to "send a message of fear," as one expert, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, said on his social media. Fear! In a country that’s supposed to be a welcoming home for so many.

It's meant to rattle cages and make folks worry, especially in communities that have already been poked and prodded too much. But, bless their little cotton socks, the Justice Department is already spread thinner than my patience on a Monday morning. So, this grand plan might just be more bark than bite, as they say.

Another official, Sarah Pierce, put it perfectly: setting quotas like this "turns a serious and rare tool into a blunt instrument and fuels unnecessary fear and uncertainty for the millions of naturalized Americans." And that, my dears, is why your grandma just can't even today. It's a drama queen move, plain and simple!