India, June 9 -- The Trump administration has announced plans to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud. This move is part of a bigger denaturalization campaign, which is being called the largest such effort in U.S. history.

CBS News first reported these plans before the Justice Department made them public. Officials say the government is now using its "denaturalization powers" much more aggressively than before. Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed only about 11 cases per year on average to remove citizenship, as reported first by CBS News.

Denaturalization means taking away U.S. citizenship from naturalized citizens if they got it through fraud or hiding important facts. The legal proces...