Supreme Court: Immigrants Who Lie to Feds to Become Citizens May Lose Citizenship

Breitbart ^ | 24 Jun 2017 | Ken Klukowski

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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Thursday held that federal law authorizes courts to strip immigrant citizens of their U.S. citizenship if they obtained it as a result of making false statements to the federal government.

Federal law found at 18 U.S.C. § 1425(a) makes it a crime to “knowingly procur[e], contrary to law, the naturalization of any person” to become a U.S. citizen. (“Naturalization” is the legal term for becoming a citizen.) Moreover, a second federal statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1451(e) adds that a foreigner who obtains U.S. citizenship through such a violation will lose that newly granted citizenship.

Divna Maslenjak is a Serb who, along with her husband and two children, sought refugee status in 1998 to flee Bosnia. As part of seeking protected status, she swore under oath that the family feared persecution because her husband evaded military service. They were admitted to the United States in 2000 as refugees.

[Cheerio]

Please God, tell me I am not dreaming!!

Immigration has become nothing more than a joke in the America of NO-BORDERS for the past two decades.

This non-sense really took root with the infamous Reagan signing -pushed by Swimmer Kennedy - The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, (IRCA) or the Simpson-Mazzoli bill as it was commonly known as.

CHECK OUT THE LIES WE WERE TOLD BY THE CORRUPTOCRATS BACK THEN and ever since with Amnesty after amnesty.

1. Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA), 1986: A blanket amnesty for some 2.7 million illegal aliens

2. Section 245(i) Amnesty, 1994: A temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens

3. Section 245(i) Extension Amnesty, 1997: An extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994

4. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty, 1997: An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America

5. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA), 1998: An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti

6. Late Amnesty, 2000: An amnesty for some illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens

7. LIFE Act Amnesty, 2000: A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty, an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens

[Parley Baer]

Please let it be so.

[kabar]

The 1965 Immigration Act changed America forever.

[bgill]

MAY lose citizenship? How about a public flogging then deported.

[Shadowstrike]

This is a no-brainer. IF you lied to become a citizen you should lose citizenship, and INSTANTLY be removed from the Country, and any and ALL assets forfeited.

[HangThemHigh]

Will they get to vote dimocratic first? How many times?

[PA Engineer]

That handles Taqiyyah.

Simple question is if you follow the US Constitution or Shariah. Of course they may answer the US Constitution under the tenets of Taqiyyah, however future actions will lead to summary deportation.

[Lera]

Kick them out now

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The Supreme Court on Thursday held that federal law authorizes courts to strip immigrant citizens of their U.S. citizenship if they obtained it as a result of making false statements to the federal government.

:: MAY lose citizenship? ::

The SCOTUS said that citizenship will be lost at the purview of the lesser courts while NOT saying that the lesser court is required to rule against said liars.

Who is in charge here?
COWARDS!

[SharpRightTurn]

Enforcing our immigration laws, all of them, would truly be “comprehensive immigration reform” (though not in the sense that the Dims and sell-America-out Republicans agitate for).

Enforce the laws.

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I’d be happy with them just be stripped of all property and earnings since landing here and then deported.

There HAS to be cost to be borne by these people’s criminality.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[oldbill]

Wrong!
This defendant did NOT lose citizenship.
The Court overruled the decisions to kick her out.
She lied, but the court said her particular lie was not a part of her citizenship process. Stupid! Then why was she asked the question?

The question WAS materiel to her application. We need to know if her spouse was a member of a foreign military, one that we were engaged in combat with.

This headline is the exact opposite of what the Court actually decided.
They decided you can lie on your citizenship application. You should know that whenever Kagan, Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor ever vote on an issue that it is against the people and America.

[ealgeone]

The 86 amnesty bill and the Bork SCOTUS screw-up and O'Connor appointment were the biggest mistakes of Reagan's presidency.

But he did appoint Scalia.

If only O'Connor and Kennedy had been in Scalia's mold.

[Leaning Right]

> This headline is the exact opposite of what the Court actually decided. <

I think you’re right. The article was hard to follow, with all the subsection this and subsection that stuff. But it did not seem like a good ruling to me.

[Grampa Dave]

IF you lied to become a citizen you should lose citizenship, and INSTANTLY be removed from the Country, and any and ALL assets forfeited.

[DannyTN]

The headline is misleading.

Yes the law clearly states they can lose their citizenship because of lying, however SCOTUS just sent this case back to the lower court to consider whether the lie which everyone agrees occurred would have helped her gain citizenship. And if not, they can’t strip it.

SCOTUS just weakened the law. SCOTUS just said a lower court can mind read what an immigration official might have done had the applicant not lied, and therefore deny the stripping of citizenship based on the court’s psychic ability. Not good.

[DannyTN]

The headline is misleading.

Yes the law clearly states they can lose their citizenship because of lying, however SCOTUS just sent this case back to the lower court to consider whether the lie which everyone agrees occurred would have helped her gain citizenship. And if not, they can’t strip it.

SCOTUS just weakened the law. SCOTUS just said a lower court can mind read what an immigration official might have done had the applicant not lied, and therefore deny the stripping of citizenship based on the court’s psychic ability. Not good.

[catnipman]

“This headline is the exact opposite of what the Court actually decided. They decided you can lie on your citizenship application.”

that’s the way i read it as well. thanks for confirming i’m not crazy, well, at least completely crazy.

[DoughtyOne]

All nine justices rejected that argument. “The most natural understanding is that the illegal act must have somehow contributed to the obtaining of citizenship,” Justice Kagan wrote. In other words, “§ 1425(a) demands a means-ends connection between a legal violation and naturalization.”

“We hold that the Government must establish that an illegal act by the defendant played some role in her acquisition of citizenship,” the Court declared. “When the illegal act is a false statement, that means demonstrating that the defendant lied about facts that would have mattered to an immigration official.”

The Court concluded that the contrary instructions given to the jury were faulty and that, instead, the jury should have been told that they needed to decide the factual question of whether Maslenjak’s lying about her husband’s military service was part of the cause of obtaining her own citizenship.

So committing fraud during the refugee or citizenship process can sometimes be okay? Really?

Honest to God, it has to be the water!

At least two branches of our federal government are completely out of control.

Not one sane justice on the SCOTUS.