MAGA hardliners seek to strip Mamdani of US citizenship

TOI correspondent from Washington: Two prominent MAGA Republican lawmakers have formally demanded the US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate putative New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose mother is the Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, with the explicit goal of revoking his American citizenship and triggering deportation proceedings. Florida Congressman Randy Fine this week joined his GOP colleague Andy Ogles of Tennessee in seeking a Justice Department review into Mamdani’s 2018 naturalization, citing among other things, failure to disclose membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which they deem as a communist organization, on his citizenship application. They also say Mamdani’s past public remarks and associations with radical groups raise questions about potent