Trump admin moves to strip citizenship from Haitian, Cubans
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October 12, 2026
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WASHINGTON, United States (CMC)—The Donald Trump administration says it has filed denaturalisation actions in multiple US district courts against one Haitian and two Cuban nationals among 40 individuals accused of “serious offences,” including acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special-needs man.
Filed between August 21 and October 2, 2026, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said these complaints represent “the largest volume of complaints submitted in a single period under the Trump administration.”
The DOJ said the Haitian national whose US citizenship would be stripped is Arnouse Merlien, while the Cuban nationals are Javier Marrero-Pando and Lazaro Trujillo Viton.
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