APNewsBreak: US launches bid to find citizenship cheaters

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Amy Taxin, Associated Press
Updated 5:00 pm, Monday, June 11, 2018

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna told The Associated Press in an interview that his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who were ordered deported and are suspected of using fake identities to later get green cards and citizenship through naturalization.

Cissna said the cases would be referred to the Department of Justice, whose attorneys could then seek to remove the immigrants' citizenship in civil court proceedings. In some cases, government attorneys could bring criminal charges related to fraud.

Until now, the agency has pursued cases as they arose but not through a coordinated effort, Cissna said. He said he hopes the agency's new office in Los Angeles will be running by next year but added that investigating and referring cases for prosecution will likely take longer.


Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/APNewsBreak-US-launches-bid-to-find-citizenship-12985253.php

[Freethinker65]

1. Start with Melania and her parents

[dbackjon]

4. Donald is probably behind that move.

[jiminvegas]

14. Or Melania

[orangecrush]

2. More crap

From this crap administration.

[kimbutgar]

3. Watch them go after people on the left

[awesomerwb1]

5. They're simply coming up with stuff

to create "noise" so they can later justify further immigration restrictions and tightening of immigration policies.

They'll go on faux and say that fraud is massive and widespread.

[safeinOhio]

6. Go after all those in the Russian Mob.....

Naahhhh.

[FakeNoose]

8. Yep - deport them all

[Exotica]

17. So much this!

Numpty RW'ers delude themselves into thinking Putin actually likes and respects Trump.

[groundloop]

7. Spanky is going to use the threat of this to keep Melania from filing for divorce

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Restricting trade, immigration, border access, citizenship, green cards

Will they still let us OUT OF THIS PLACE?

[VMA131Marine]

10. I can't imagine there are too many people

who managed to get all the way through the citizenship process with a fake identity. This is a Trojan horse to start looking at every citizenship application with the intent of finding minor errors that they can use to strip citizenship and deport people. No immigrant is safe with this administration.

[wellst0nev0ter]

11. Make Every American Take the Citizenship Test

Those who fail get deported.

Will that work?

[oswaldactedalone]

12. That's a creative way

to rid us of the Thuglican Party once and for all. Can't see many of those mouth breathers passing it.

[angrychair]

13. I would fail on purpose

I was born in the Netherlands to American parents so I can’t claim Dutch citizenship but if I could convince them to deport me to the Netherlands I would take it.

[SCVDem]

15. How many bridges does this replace?

The orange asshole never heard of infrastructure.

Just inflicting pain and suffering.

[a la izquierda]

16. They can take mine.

I was born here to parents born here, but I'd gladly trade my US passport for one from a more sane country.