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5/7/2026, 3:07:52 PM
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Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanch is brushing off accusations that the Justice Department is targeting President Trump's political rivals in a new wide-ranging interview with CBS News immigration correspondent Camila Montoyo
Gabz. He also defended his administration's plans for dnaturalizations, which he said could soon ramp up.
And Camilo joins us now this morning from Phoenix, Arizona. Uh
so wait, so let's break down what he said about those dnaturalizations.
Uh what is that all about? Uh uh Camilo,
>> good morning, Vlad. Well, historically the dennaturalization process, the act of revoking someone's citizenship,
someone who was born overseas but who became an American citizen legally has been rare and limited Vlad to egregious cases involving human rights abusers or terrorists or national security threats.
But now the second Trump administration is trying to dramatically expand that procedure, expanding the categories of legal immigrants who are naturalized US citizens who could be subject to denaturalization.
Let's take a listen to what the acting attorney general, Todd Blanch, told us about that campaign.
There's a lot of concern among naturalized citizens, and I think there's about 24 million citizens who are naturalized here in the US.
Well, I don't know what the why they would be concerned. So, for example, it's like saying um are you going to arrest just people who rob a convenience store?
Because there's a lot of people who go to convenience stores who are worried.
They shouldn't be. If you didn't commit a crime in the way you committed the way you became a citizen,
I don't think you have anything to worry about.
So, I don't think it's true that those 24 million citizens are worried.
I think there's a very small percentage of them who are worried and yes, they should be.
And Vlad Lanch conceded to us that revoking someone's citizenship is a drastic consequence and action.
But he said that committing fraud to obtain that citizenship in the first place is also a drastic act by the person who is being targeted as part of this denaturalization campaign.
But of course there are a lot of concerns among naturalized citizens that they could be targeted by this campaign. There are 24 million naturalized citizens here in the US.
>> And Camilo, you know, there have been claims that the DOJ is conducting a retribution campaign. Um, what did Blanch say to that?
>> Well, as you know, former President Barack Obama recently said that the Justice Department can't be directed by the president to go around prosecuting and targeting his political rivals.
We posed that question directly to Blanch.
Let's take a listen to how he responded to that criticism.
>> It is absolutely not true. And how do I prove it's not true?
Well, if you look at the the recent indictment you asked me about a few minutes ago, you have local prosecutors, you have local agents that I don't even know their names.
Okay? I don't know their names um who are bringing these charges. Okay? That's
that's one way. And and the other the next thing I'll say is is it is extraordinarily hypocritical and extraordinarily rich for these critics as you call them to focus on what this administration's doing when almost to a person they remain dead silent for four years while we saw what happened um during during um the Biden administration with President Trump.
And we asked Blanch directly, "Is President Trump calling you personally to direct prosecutions at the Justice Department?" And he did not explicitly or categorically deny that claim, but instead said that President Trump has better things to do than to be telling the attorney general how to do his job.
Guys,
>> all right, Camilo, with that great all right, Camilo, with that great reporting and that interview. Thank you
very much, Camilo. Appreciate it.
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