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Supreme Court: Immigrants Who Lie to Feds to Become Citizens May Lose Citizenship
Breitbart ^ | 24 Jun 2017 | Ken Klukowski

Posted on 06/24/2017 11:32:02 AM PDT by Cheerio

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegal; illegalsinvasion; immigration; scotus; scotusillegals; trumpillegals
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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
1 posted on 06/24/2017 11:32:02 AM PDT by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio

Please let it be so.


2 posted on 06/24/2017 11:33:46 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Cheerio

The 1965 Immigration Act changed America forever.


3 posted on 06/24/2017 11:39:18 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Cheerio

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


4 posted on 06/24/2017 11:40:27 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Cheerio

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.


5 posted on 06/24/2017 11:41:05 AM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: bgill

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


6 posted on 06/24/2017 11:47:34 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: Cheerio
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.
7 posted on 06/24/2017 11:50:06 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media and Shariah Socialism.)
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To: Cheerio

Kick them out now


8 posted on 06/24/2017 11:51:20 AM PDT by Lera
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To: bgill

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!


9 posted on 06/24/2017 11:52:07 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cheerio

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.


10 posted on 06/24/2017 11:57:23 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: bgill

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.


11 posted on 06/24/2017 11:58:01 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Cheerio


12 posted on 06/24/2017 12:07:11 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Demographic Tsnami - Have Big Families)
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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.


13 posted on 06/24/2017 12:28:31 PM PDT by oldbill (ure wa)
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To: Cheerio
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.

14 posted on 06/24/2017 12:30:38 PM PDT by ealgeone
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> 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.


15 posted on 06/24/2017 12:33:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Shadowstrike
IF you lied to become a citizen you should lose citizenship, and INSTANTLY be removed from the Country, and any and ALL assets forfeited.
16 posted on 06/24/2017 12:49:31 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are patriots and on Flight 93 for our country! Lets Roll! For Americans and President Trump! MAGA)
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To: Cheerio; Parley Baer

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.


17 posted on 06/24/2017 12:53:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Cheerio; Parley Baer

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.


18 posted on 06/24/2017 12:53:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: oldbill

“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.


19 posted on 06/24/2017 12:54:26 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Cheerio
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.

20 posted on 06/24/2017 1:00:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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