Is this legally possible to "deport" American citizens to a foreign country for a crime?
So what about American citizens?
Naturalized U.S. citizens, in rare cases, can be denaturalized and revert to green-card status, such as if they lied on their initial immigration forms or committed a serious crime such as funding a terrorist group, according to Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law expert and retired Cornell Law School professor.
Green card holders can then be deported if they’re convicted of any number of crimes, including murder, assault, burglary, tax evasion, domestic violence and illegal firearms possession, he said.
Natural-born U.S. citizens, however, maintain their citizenship through the U.S. Constitution’s
14th Amendment, which outlines the rights guaranteed to all citizens, such as due process and equal protection under the law.
“So, just as President Trump can’t
eliminate birthright citizenship by himself, so too the U.S. government cannot deport U.S. citizens, even if they have committed crimes,” Yale-Loehr said.