denaturalize

Trump will have to start deporting legal immigrants and, quite likely, "denaturalizing" citizens to get anywhere close to that goal.

As attorney general, Mr. Civiletti successfully argued before the Supreme Court for the government’s right to denaturalize Nazi war criminals.

Fewer than 150 people had been denaturalized in American courts in the previous 50 years, almost all of them Nazis, war criminals or people who were convicted of federal crimes tied to large-scale immigration fraud.

The anarchist Emma Goldman was denaturalized in 1909, and shipped to Revolutionary Russia a decade later.

His denaturalization task force, for instance, was about “denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,” he said.