WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement in response to reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-immigration-citizenship-denaturalization.html) that the Trump administration will escalate denaturalization efforts, the latest in a cruel and callous slew of attacks on immigrants and their rights to citizenship.

"The Trump administration's latest anti-immigrant attack is xenophobia disguised as policy. It is disgusting and cruel to revoke the citizenship of Americans who have called this country home for years. All American citizens--regardless of where they were born-deserve all of our nation's constitutional prot...