Trump Vows to Remove US Citizens. Can He Do That?: QuickTake

The Trump administration has unveiled plans to remove legal immigrants from the US, including by canceling green cards and “denaturalizing” some US citizens, after an Afghan national who entered the country in 2021 was accused of shooting two members of the West Virginia National Guard.

“Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation,” President Donald Trump declared on social media after the Nov. 26 shooting in Washington, DC, in a sharp escalation of his anti-immigration rhetoric.

Presidents have wide latitude over immigration, a power that the Supreme Court has repeatedly reaffirmed, including in lawsuits challenging earlier Trump policies. But ...