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Naturalized U.S. citizens once viewed their status as bedrock protection, but Trump’s crackdown on immigration has left many fearing their hard-won citizenship is vulnerable.

Many naturalized citizens now avoid traveling abroad or domestically, worried that immigration agents will detain them despite valid documentation or deny them reentry.

Historically, citizenship is an ill-defined term, and the right has been at risk various times before.

NEW YORK — When he first came to the United States after escaping civil war in Sierra Leone and spending almost a decade in a refugee camp, Dauda Sesay had no idea he could become a citizen. But he was told that if he followed the rules and

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