Below The Line

In this episode, Amanda Frost, Professor of Law at American University, discusses her Essay, Alienating Citizens, where she declares that denaturalization is back. Over the past couple of years, she explains, the Trump Administration has revived denaturalization. This episode and her Essay situate denaturalization within the Trump Administration’s broader approach to immigration. Under a policy known as “attrition through enforcement,” the Trump Administration has sought to discourage immigration and encourage “self-deportation.” For more, read Alienating Citizens in the Northwestern University Law Review Online here: https://northwesternlawreview.org/articles/alienating-citizens/ Keep an eye out for Unmaking Americans: A History of Citizenship Stripping in the United States, coming out in 2020.