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Up to 100,000 Austrians with dual Turkish citizenship could be stripped of their Austrian citizenship as courts in the country look into violations of the country’s dual nationality laws.

Australia has stripped five Syria-based dual nationals of their citizenship due to their involvement with the Islamic State terrorist group, a government minister said Thursday.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is urging residents of California to “resist” the inclusion of a citizenship question on the U.S. Census in 2020 by submitting comments to the U.S. Census Bureau by the August 7 deadline.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post is requesting Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “eliminate” the citizenship question that has been added to the 2020 Census. 

Democrats who oppose the Trump administration’s move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census held a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday, including Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-MO), who compared it to killings based on race.

Late last month, my office and the American people received great news from the White House: our petition to reinstate the citizenship question in the decennial 2020 Census was approved. We will once again get a more accurate count of how many American citizens reside in our country.

Counting American citizens on the 2020 Census, as President Donald Trump’s administration has announced they will do, is likely to shift power away from coastal states harboring large illegal alien populations and towards middle America.

Former Attorney General and Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Eric Holder, is vowing to “litigate to stop” President Trump from counting United States citizens on the 2020 Census.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, during Tuesday’s briefing, defended the inclusion of a question on citizenship in the U.S. census as providing data to the Department of Justice to protect voters and comply with the Voting Rights Act.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra declared on Monday evening that he will sue the Trump administration after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that a citizenship question will be added to the 2020 Census.

President Trump’s election and a question that would ask United States residents if they are citizens of the country are unlikely to reduce participation in the upcoming 2020 Census, a new study reveals.

Federal immigration laws are protecting foreign-born gang members from deportation, the top official for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency confirms.

On this week’s edition of Breitbart News Saturday, broadcast live on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern, Breitbart News’ Deputy Political Editor Amanda House will break down the House Intelligence Committee’s FISA memo released Friday.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responded to President Trump’s “State of the Union” (SOTU) address by claiming that the roughly 3.5 million illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program “are Americans too.”

President Trump is going to openly demand a “path to citizenship” in his State of the Union address, per full text of it obtained by Breitbart News.

If you asked most people whether the federal government knows the number of citizens in the United States after each decennial census, they would answer yes. After all, that’s one of the main purposes of the census. Unfortunately, we don’t get that information.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has authored an expansive amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens, is touting President Trump’s suggestion that he is open to supporting U.S. citizenship for illegal aliens.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to convince the Census Bureau to add a question about citizenship status to 2020 census forms, according to a DOJ letter released Friday.

The birthplace of Skype is in the midst of addressing the unique legal ramifications of automated citizenry.

As the Trump Administration reviews reforms to the immigration system, seven priority measures emerge.

TEL AVIV – With the endorsement of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, lawmakers on Sunday submitted a proposal to strip Arab Israeli terrorists of their citizenship in response to Friday’s terror attack in Jerusalem.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said he has seen a “huge demand” for citizenship in immigrant communities “ever since the election of Donald Trump.”

U.K.-born actor Patrick Stewart told the co-hosts of The View that he’s applying for U.S. citizenship so he can mount opposition to President Donald Trump from inside the country.

The naturalization process for foreign same-sex partners in Israel will be the same as that of their heterosexual counterparts, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit reported Thursday to the High Court of Justice.

The Obama administration approved 175 foreign-born individuals for citizenship despite skipping an FBI name check that could have disqualified them, forcing the government to stop all naturalization ceremonies in late November.

The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants who had pending deportation orders from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.

Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father-turned-Democrat operative, has challenged Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to take the naturalization test that all legal immigrants must take to become U.S. citizens.

Due to the Obama Administration’s effort encouraging immigrants to become U.S. citizens to “fully participate in civic life” and a desire to vote in the 2016 presidential election, the number of naturalization applications have increased substantially in recent months, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

TEL AVIV- The Israeli citizenship of a terrorist who rammed his car into soldiers before going on a stabbing spree may be revoked, the Interior Minister said Sunday.

In a continuation of its effort to encourage eligible immigrants to become U.S. citizens, the Obama administration is proposing adjustments to the immigration benefit fee schedule that would raise the cost of some benefits but reduce naturalization fees for certain low-income immigrants.

SYDNEY, April 8 (Reuters) – Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its battle against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria, said on Friday it would strip dual nationals convicted of terror-related crimes of citizenship. French President Francois

An immigration activist group says it is organizing GOP primary debate watch parties and citizenship drives ahead of next week’s Iowa caucuses.

Friday on HBO’s “Real Time” during the online-only “Overtime” segment, Rep. Alan Grayson (R-FL) doubled down on his threat to sue if Sen. Ted Cruz (R-FL) is the eventual Republican presidential nominee over Cruz’s ability to fulfill the constitutional obligations

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and businessman Donald Trump went toe-to-toe in a thrilling exchange at the GOP Debate in Charleston, South Carolina on Thursday evening as they debated Cruz’s constitutional eligibility for the presidency.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s comments about whether or not Cruz is a “natural born” citizen and able to run for President of the United States–suggesting that Democrats are the ones prompting Trump to question Cruz’s citizenship.

A correct originalist reading of the Natural Born Clause and instead compels the conclusion that Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen under Article II of the Constitution, and therefore eligible.