Surely a coincidence this is increasing under the administration of a man who launched his political career by accusing the President of falsifying his natural-born citizenship.
It’s never been only about hardened criminals or “illegal immigration.” They’re deporting undocumented people w/no criminal record & legal immigrants w/past misdemeanors. They’re revoking naturalized citizenship & deporting natural-born citizens, claiming fraudulent birth certs.
They’re not even claiming the certs are forgeries. They’re real, official birth certificates. The claim is that the midwives or OBs put false information about which side of the border the baby was born on.
The people caught in this have lived their ENTIRE LIVES as US citizens.
Even if they’re not deported, this rejection of their citizenship status puts them in a legal limbo, and of course disenfranchises them from voting.
And you know how much the GOP loves to stop people from voting.