The U.S. Department of Justice has filed to strip citizenship from 10 naturalized Americans it says concealed serious crimes—including child sex abuse, fraud, and drug trafficking—when they became citizens.
DOJ Names 10 More Immigrants Facing Citizenship Revocation Over Hidden Crimes
The Trump administration is not slowing down its denaturalization push. Ten more names just landed on the list.
According to a Department of Justice statement released Monday, federal prosecutors filed denaturalization complaints in district courts across the country over the past 30 days. The targets: naturalized citizens accused of hiding everything from child sexual abuse to multimillion-dollar fraud schemes before taking the oath of citizenship.
This batch adds to the 17 individuals the DOJ flagged back in June, making it part of what the department calls its largest denaturalization campaign ever.
“Trump administration continues largest denaturalisation effort ever,” the DOJ said, describing the offenses as ranging from child sexual abuse to healthcare fraud, wire fraud, immigration fraud, and cocaine trafficking conspiracies.
The legal basis is the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the government to cancel citizenship obtained illegally—whether through concealment of material facts or outright lies during the naturalization process.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn’t mince words. “These ten criminal aliens — including child sex abusers, a $900,000 Medicare fraudster, and a cocaine trafficker — lied their way into U.S. citizenship,” he said in the statement.
Blanche added that each person named “lacked the good moral character required by law” and secured citizenship “through willful misrepresentations and concealment of their crimes.”
The cases span multiple states and nationalities. A Cuban man allegedly ran a fake medical clinic and billed Medicare for nearly $887,000 while hiding the fraud from immigration officers. A former priest from Mexico is accused of sexually abusing children at a Washington, D.C. church between 2015 and 2017. A Pakistani national allegedly filed immigration paperwork under multiple aliases before finally naturalizing under a false identity. A Polish former priest is accused of stealing nearly $260,000 from South Dakota parishes and secretly recording a minor.
Other cases involve a Utah man convicted of 19 counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a Mexican national who allegedly bought fake identity documents to secure a replacement green card, and a man who pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to distribute cocaine—months after lying on his naturalization application about any criminal history.
The DOJ says all 10 cases follow the same pattern: citizenship obtained through fraud, concealment, or false sworn testimony, only for the underlying crimes to surface later through separate criminal convictions.
Source: gazettengr.com
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