DE-RADICALIZATION OF EXTREMISTS Homegrown violent extremists are individuals or groups of people who justify, support, encourage, or endorse violence or criminal actions against the public to gain their economic, religious, political, social, and ideological goals. Majorly, the homegrown violent extremists are the Western country citizens or the people who are legally permitted to reside in a country for a long-term period and have come to oppose the country’s norms, beliefs, cultures, and values. In the United States of America, the extremist is citizens by birth, naturalized, long-term resides, green card holders, international students, and illegal immigrants. Extremists’ threat has imposed an excellent task to the authorities concerned in finding the most appropriate ways of countering the homegrown