The Department of Justice said it would prioritize seeking to strip citizenship from naturalized U.S. citizens in more cases.

The U.S. government can strip a naturalized immigrant of their citizenship if they are criminally convicted of naturalization fraud or if the government proves through civil proceedings that they illegally obtained their citizenship through fraud or misrepresented or concealed facts on their application.

Legal experts have sounded the alarm of the memo's vauge language, arguing it would "permit the Division to denaturalize for just about anything."

After the Supreme Court ruled that the deportations could move forward, the migrants filed a new lawsuit, challenging their transfer on other grounds.

A federal judge in Washington is briefly blocking the deportation of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after the Supreme Court permitted it to go forward