Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
Politics has never been more chaotic, and most podcasts just add to the noise. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes cuts through it.
Grant is an AP Award-winning journalist with over a decade of on-the-ground reporting on the biggest political stories, scandals, and elections in America. Twice a week, he takes the stories dominating the headlines and breaks them down in plain English — no jargon, no spin, no shouting.
If you care about what’s happening in this country but you’re exhausted by how it’s being covered, this is the show for you. Real reporting. Clear explanations. Actual context.
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Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
They Can Take Your Citizenship Away — And the Trump Administration Is Trying
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Can the U.S. government take away your citizenship? Increasingly, the answer is: they're trying.
This week, Grant sits down with Irina Manta, professor of immigration and national security law at Hofstra University, author, podcaster, and naturalized citizen, to break down the Trump administration's growing push to denaturalize Americans — and what it means for the future of citizenship in this country.
Between 1990 and 2017, only about 305 people lost their citizenship. The current administration wants to denaturalize 385 this year alone. This episode unpacks why, how, and what you can do about it.
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Denaturalization's Missing Limit
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