[coderatlarge]

asking in a narrower context than before: what happens when an Nth generation american is forced to prove their ancestors came to the country legally under threat of being stripped of the only citizenship they’ve ever had ? i doubt most people can produce documentation reaching back several generations…

[coderatlarge]

see the following [1]doj enforcement priority on stripping citizenship ; i guess conceivably a citizen could be in a situation of having to prove that some ancestor didn’t lie on their naturalization application

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalizatio...

[coderatlarge]

and here comes denaturalization:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-test-red-line-denatur...