Posted on 07/17/2018 11:49:09 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As if the separation of families at the border and the travel ban were not enough, the Trump administration has a denaturalization initiative that is stoking controversy.
A few weeks ago, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director L. Francis Cissna told the Associated Press that his agency is hiring dozens of attorneys to form a task force to review the records of people who have become U.S. citizens since 1990, in order to identify people who deliberately lied on their citizenship applications. “We finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad cases and start denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,” Cissna told AP.
Denaturalization as a priority is unprecedented and has alarmed many advocates for immigrants. […]
According to immigration officials, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (USAO) generally have not accepted immigration benefit fraud cases for criminal prosecution. […]
The OIG recommended that DHS establish a plan for evaluating the eligibility of those naturalized citizens whose fingerprint records reveal deportation orders under a different identity. Recent reports indicate that 95 of the 2,536 naturalization cases reviewed, or 3.7 percent, have been referred to the Department of Justice. According to Cissna, USCIS is going beyond the OIG’s recommended investigation of individuals identified in its report. […]
By going above and beyond the OIG report, the Trump administration is sending a clear signal to all naturalized citizens: they are under review and vulnerable. I have encountered citizens who fear that their use of a fake ID years ago may prompt denaturalization proceedings. This initiative fits into the Trump administration paradigm that views immigrants as criminals. …
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There has been a ton of fraud, particularly during the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
This should be investigated.
They will find people using fake ids or stealing from others.
The Hill thinks Perjury should be Legalized, unless you are a Natural Born American Citizen of course.
Of course it should be. And it’s not unusual to strip a naturalized alien of citizenship on certain grounds.
I agree. And fake marriages.
“....in order to identify people who deliberately lied on their citizenship applications.....”
And such positive action would carry into welfare and medical fraud.
Good news!! Start with the Nazi collaborator Soros and revoke his citizenship.
LOL does not apply to me! I was naturalized in 1970, when one had to pass oral exam of US Constitution.
Good. If you lied on your application, that is a fraud against the United States of American, and all of its citizens. Should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Lots of time, money and energy that can and should be used for the illegal invaders.
No research required with them - we know already they should not be here and get the hell out.
Supposedly it is unrealistic to deport millions upon millions of illegals that everyone knows are taking jobs away from Americans but draining the taxpayers dry with generous bennies. No reason to expand an operation you ostensibly cannot handle as it is now.
Citizenship based on a lie is an insult to every naturalized American who didn’t lie. Of course what the lie was would be significant in determining if they should be allowed to stay and keep their citizenship.
Illegals get away with a lot of crimes naturalized and natural born American’s don’t. If someone, say used a fake name, to become a naturalized citizen because they have a criminal record which would have prevented them from ever becoming naturalized; don’t you think justice would be served by denaturalizing them and deporting them with an even longer criminal record and letting them know if they are caught in America again (illegally) they will serve a lengthy prison sentence?
If you could see my ugly mug right now, you would see me with 2 thumbs up!
True. Citizenship is a gift of the U.S. gov’t and can be revoked for serious criminal behavior, followed by a prison term and deportation. If citizenship was acquired by fraud, definitely it should be revoked. That person is hiding something of a criminal nature that would prevent citizenship in the first place. Happy to see the gov’t getting serious about citizenship. I’m a naturalized citizen myself, and I always worked hard, am self sufficient, and strive to be worthy of it.
Yup. Deport Soros. He has been deported from
Britain already. And has worn out his welcome in other countries. I had to chuckle when Putin and Trump had their summit, Putin called out Soros yesterday. Soros has gone through a bunch of nationalities, one place he’ll never get a toe in the door is Russia.
The question isn’t whether or not justice is properly served, but rather why are we not getting the job done first with the KNOWN illegals.
Why divert resources away from that which, apparently, we are having a difficult time doing with the resources we have now?
Again, no need to go fishing. We know who and where the illegal border crossers are (half the time they give themselves away with their ‘protests’ anyway).
It will therefore delay the deportation of untold numbers of known illegal invaders in order to ‘catch’ a relative handful of naturalized citizens. Intentional? Maybe a political reason for this decision.
Why not do both. Catch and deport all the illegals AND catch and deport all the liars.
Because we can’t even do one. That’s why.
Great. Many have gotten citizenship through fraud.
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