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Eric Schmitt rips Hirono over denaturalization bill: 'You're damn right we're deporting' criminals

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., criticized Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, during Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing after she accused the Trump administration of "terrorizing immigrant communities" during a session focused on the denaturalization of individuals convicted of fraud and other crimes.Hirono, a naturalized citizen, remarked on the SCAM Act, or the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation Act, during the hearing, titled "Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits." She argued that the bill would impose stricter requirements on natural...