India, July 1 -- A new memo by the Justice Department under the Trump administration tries to strip US citizenship from naturalised Americans who are convicted of certain crimes.

The document, quietly published on 11 June, clearly instructs government attorneys to give civil denaturalisation cases involving alleged fraud, serious crime, or national security a priority.

Notably, it is estimated that 25 million naturalised citizens, individuals who were born abroad but became U.S. citizens through the naturalisation process, are currently living in the United States.

The memo calls for legal action against any naturalised citizen found to have "illegally procured" their citizenship or obtained it through "concealment of a material fact o...