{"id":949,"date":"2019-03-27T03:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:23:28","slug":"immigrant-fingerprint-archive-will-be-scanned-to-revoke-citizenship-from-fraudulent-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Fingerprint Archive Will Be Scanned To Revoke Citizenship From Fraudulent Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Trump Administration continues to play <\/span>tug of war with undocumented families, there\u2019s another immigration issue brewing. On June 12, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it was launching a new agency that focuses on repealing naturalization citizenship\u00a0from people who have committed fraud on their application, The Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad cases and start denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,\u201d USCIS director L. Francis Cissna told the AP. \u201cWhat we\u2019re looking at, when you boil it all down, is potentially a few thousand cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cissna says that one of the reasons they were prompted to start this new agency was because they were informed of 858 instances in which possible fraud could have occurred on a citizenship application.<\/p>\n

While the USCIS has reported cases of fraud by citizenship applicants in the past, the agency has not existed with such a strong focus in previous years.<\/p>\n

For example, immigration attorney Matthew Hoppock told The Washington Post that the Justice Department has only filed 305 denaturalization cases since the 1990s. But now, under the Trump administration, as Cissna noted, they are planning on prosecuting thousands of cases. Cissna said they have hired dozens of lawyers and immigration officers to handle the caseload.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Searching the archives<\/h2>\n

According to The Washington Post, Homeland Security investigators <\/span>will digitize fingerprints that date back to the 1990s, which accounts for an estimated 315,000\u00a0fingerprints. They will compare the prints of people who have been deported and compare them with people who have become naturalized U.S. citizens under a different name. Those cases will then be prosecuted, and it will be up to a judge to decide whether or not that person will get their U.S. citizenship revoked.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody who obtained U.S. citizenship by deliberately assuming a false identity will be surprised to learn they are being referred to the Justice Department for removal proceedings,\u201d USCIS spokesman Michael Bars said to CNN. \u201cUSCIS screens for deliberate acts of fraud relating to the use of false identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why the sudden new and\u00a0especially public\u00a0focus?<\/p>\n

Convenient timing<\/h2>\n

As of now, USCIS reports they are investigating <\/span>2,536 cases of citizenship fraud, and 95 have already been taken up with the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

Ur Jaddou, who is a director at pro-immigration advocacy group\u00a0America\u2019s Voice\u00a0and a former chief counsel for USCIS, told CNN that he questions the motives behind new heightened alert.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder this administration, this denaturalization effort doesn\u2019t feel like a good government ensuring integrity,\u201d\u00a0Jaddou said to CNN. \u201cThat was already happening before this administration. \u2026 So, it begs the question, why the sudden new and\u00a0especially public\u00a0focus?\u201d<\/p>\n

This move by the government is just the latest in a slew of ways immigration officials are targeting U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

There have\u00a0been hundreds of cases in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u00a0has wrongfully detained U.S. citizens. The recent detainment of a 62-year-old Mexican\u00a0and 47-year-old Filipino show that green card holders are also vulnerable for deportation due to minor convictions that date back decades.<\/p>\n

Top and share photo by Herika Martinez\/AFP\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the Trump Administration continues to play tug of war with undocumented families, there\u2019s another immigration issue brewing. On June 12, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it was launching a new agency that focuses on repealing naturalization citizenship\u00a0from people who have committed fraud on their application, The Associated Press reports. \u201cWe finally…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}