We live in an era of the weaponization of citizenship. This has been quite a week on the U.S. citizenship front.

While, making it more difficult for certain citizens to renounce U.S. citizenship

Today's message from USA about closing #citizide centers at Halifax and Quebec City: The US State Department is clearly taking steps to make it harder for people to renounce U.S. citizenship. https://t.co/YmXxHYSEyQ pic.twitter.com/CoF6v85hWd

— John Richardson – lawyer for "U.S. persons" abroad (@ExpatriationLaw) February 29, 2020

The U.S. Government is taking specific initiatives to strip naturalized U.S. citizens of their U.S. citizenship

New unit will sue to strip U.S. citizenship from ‘terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and other swindlers,’ the Justice Department said. https://t.co/figwIRxN45

— Andrew Grossman (@andygr) February 27, 2020

Is this constitutional? Interesting commentary from the Twittersphere …

Denaturalization is unconstitutional. The Constitution says anyone the government naturalizes is a U.S. citizen and has equal rights as all other citizens. US-born citizens cannot have their citizenship revoked, so neither should naturalized citizens https://t.co/rkjtceTP19

— David Bier (@David_J_Bier) February 27, 2020