US justice department moves to strip citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens

Officials file denaturalization actions' against people accused of crimes in what they call largest' such initiative

Donald Trump's justice department has moved to strip the citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens accused of crimes in what authorities describe as the largest" such initiative over a single period during his administration.

US justice department officials on Monday announced the filing of denaturalization actions" against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses as acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a specialneeds man".