Unmaking American Citizenship

People from all over the world have long sought American citizenship as a way towards a better life. The rights, privileges and protections guaranteed by citizenship could only be removed in special and rare circumstances, until now. The federal government is stepping up efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized immigrants for offenses as minor as traffic violations. At the same time, birthright citizenship, long constitutionally enshrined, risks being overturned and creating millions of stateless children. This episode dives into details of the Trump administration's legal attacks on naturalized citizens and American children born to undocumented parents.The Politics of New America explores and explains the policy of the American federal government in an era of radical change.