A Trinida­di­an is among four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) na­tion­als, among 17 for­eign­ers, against whom the De­part­ment of Jus­tice says it has filed de­nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion ac­tions in var­i­ous US dis­trict courts, ac­cus­ing them of se­ri­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing sex­u­al abuse of a mi­nor, wire and bank fraud and dis­trib­ut­ing drugs whole­sale with­out a li­cence.

It means the for­eign­ers will be stripped of their cit­i­zen­ship.

Un­der the Im­mi­gra­tion and Na­tion­al­i­ty Act, cit­i­zen­ship may be re­voked and a cer­tifi­cate of nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion can­celled if the nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion was il­le­gal­ly pro­cured or pro­cured by con­ceal­ment of a ma­te­r­i­al fact or by wil­ful mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion.