Senators Explore Avenues To Denaturalize And Deport More Fraudsters And America-Haters:
‘The American people are tired of a government that treats their citizenship as cheap, their laws as optional and their generosity as an invitation to be exploited.’
American citizenship for naturalized immigrants is a privilege that should be revoked if someone betrays their oath of allegiance to the United States, according to an argument from Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., when discussing his SCAM Act before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution on Wednesday.
Schmitt, who chaired the subcommittee, used the hearing to promote his Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation (SCAM) Act, which would do two major things: it would expand from five to 10 years the window of time after naturalization in which individuals who commit crimes that violate their oath of allegiance to the United States or who lied to get their citizenship can be denaturalized and deported, and it expands the scope of crimes that meet that standard.
“Across the country, we’re seeing the consequences of a broken naturalization system that loosely granted citizenship, and then refused to revoke it from those who stole it,” Schmitt said. “The American people are tired of a government that treats their citizenship as cheap, their laws as optional, and their generosity as an invitation to be exploited. If the government never revoked citizenship obtained by fraud, the oath becomes theater, the application becomes a game, the American citizen becomes a sucker in his own country.”
Schmitt called upon a Department of Justice review which found that naturalized citizens made up over 25% of international terrorism convictions from 9/11 through 2016, and witnesses cited recent examples of naturalized citizens committing acts of terror, espionage, and fraud.
One such example was the “Old Dominion Shooter” who shot and killed Lt. Col. Brandon Shah and injured two others in March. The gunman was a naturalized citizen named Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who had been previously convicted for trying to aid ISIS.
Majority witness Ken Cuccinelli, a former director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), pointed out that despite his terrorism conviction, Jalloh was never denaturalized and deported. If the law had been followed more strictly, he never would have been in the United States to commit that murder.
USCIS’ Operation Janus also uncovered 315,000 cases of missing fingerprint data for naturalized citizens, and at least 858 people who had deportation orders that all obtained citizenship anyway with false identities.
Schmitt used examples like these to promote the SCAM Act as a remedy for these situations, which he feels are an indication that the naturalization process makes it far too easy for people who should not be in the United States to obtain citizenship.
“The SCAM Act gives the government stronger tools when serious conduct shortly after naturalization reveals the truth that was hiding during the process,” Schmitt said. “We need a serious, nationwide denaturalization effort against fraudsters, felons, terrorists, spies, and anyone who obtained American citizenship by deceit.”
As Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pointed out, there are specific requirements to be naturalized as a citizen. One must swear the oath of allegiance, pass a civics test, and prove “good moral character,” that they are “attached to the principles of the Constitution,” and that they are “well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States.” --->READ MORE HERE
DOJ Moves To Denaturalize Alleged Terrorists And War Criminals:
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving to denaturalize 12 individuals for offenses and allegations including providing material support to terrorism, war crimes and sexual abuse of a minor, the Daily Caller has learned.
The DOJ is expected to announce on Friday that it is filing denaturalizing actions against 12 individuals, originally from Iraq, Colombia, Morocco, Somalia, Gambia, Bolivia, Uzbekistan, Kenya, India, China and Nigeria.
Ali Yousif Ahmed, a native of Iraq, is one of the individuals the DOJ says they are taking action against. Ahmed came to the U.S. in 2009, claiming his family was attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. Ten years later, Iraq asked the U.S. to extradite Ahmed to Iraq, claiming he was facing criminal charges for the premeditated murder of two Iraqi police officers in 2006.
“Upon further investigation, United States learned that, in 2015, Ahmed illegally procured his naturalization, which warrants his denaturalization, because he lied under oath about his criminal and family history when he sought admission to the United States and naturalized as a U.S. citizen,” a document on the denaturalization process and shared with the Caller read.
Khalid Ouazzani, a native of Morocco, applied for U.S. citizenship in 2005 and then again a year later, according to the DOJ. Ouazzani was allegedly “planning—with two men later convicted of trying to bomb the New York Stock exchange—ways to support AlQaida” in 2003. Then after being naturalized, Ouazzani pleaded guilty to sending al-Qaida tens of thousands of dollars with money he had fraudulently obtained Ouazzani also took a pledge of pledge of allegiance in 2008 to al-Qaida.
The DOJ is also looking to strip Baboucarr Mboob, a native of Gambia, of his naturalization, claiming he was involved in war crimes, the Caller learned. Mboob was a military police officer in the Gambian army and participated in the execution of six officers following the orders from his commanding officer who believed were victims in plotting a counter-coup against then President Yahya Jammeh, according to the DOJ. --->READ MORE HERE
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