Connecticut Dems demand IDs to recycle cans but reject GOP efforts to verify citizenship at polls

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Connecticut Democrats recently rushed through an emergency anti-fraud law requiring bottle redemption centers to collect a copy of a person’s driver’s license when they cash in more than 1,000 cans or bottles in a day — a document demand that Republicans say undercuts the party’s attacks on … Read more

GOP whip: ‘America-hating terrorists’ should lose citizenship under SCAM Act

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! House Majority Whip Tom Emmer says a string of recent terrorist attacks by naturalized citizens exposes serious flaws in U.S. immigration law, arguing it’s “more imperative now than ever” to pass the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation (SCAM) Act to allow the government to remove “America-hating terrorists” … Read more

Florida man stripped of U.S. citizenship after $3.8 million COVID-19 fraud scheme, judge rules

A Haitian-born man has been stripped of his U.S. citizenship after a federal judge in Florida found he defrauded COVID-19 relief programs out of millions of dollars and lied during the naturalization process, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the revocation of citizenship for Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint, 25, of … Read more

GOP lawmakers promise bill to strip citizenship from terrorists after attacks tied to naturalized citizens

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., announced plans Thursday to introduce legislation allowing the U.S. to denaturalize and deport naturalized citizens who commit or support terrorism, as Republicans point to a recent string of attacks involving immigrants who obtained citizenship. On Thursday, Moore called out the “horrific pattern” of … Read more

State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

WASHINGTON — The State Department has slashed by about 80% the fee for Americans to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship. After years of legal battles with several groups representing Americans wanting to give up their citizenship, the department on Friday published a final rule in the Federal Register that reduces the cost from $2,350 to … Read more