L. Francis Cissna

USCIS responded by reviewing those cases and referring appropriate ones to the DOJ.

By twenty eighteen, USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna said the agency had identified roughly twenty-five hundred cases requiring review and had referred more than a hundred and ten to DOJ.

He also pushed back publicly on reports that USCIS had created a sweeping denaturalization task force, saying that the Los Angeles office was a centralized operation for reviewing this specific universe of fingerprint cases.

So again, this, this did not begin with Donald Trump deciding one morning that he wanted to strip citizenship from immigrants.