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Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship

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06-22-2017, 02:26 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the government's ability to strip U.S. citizenship from immigrants for lying during the naturalization process.

The justices ruled unanimously in favor of an ethnic Serb from Bosnia who lied about her husband's military service.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that false statements can lead to the revocation of citizenship only if they "played some role in her naturalization."

The court rejected the position taken by the Trump administration that even minor lies can lead to loss of citizenship.

The woman, Divna Maslenjak, and her family were granted refugee status in 1999 and settled near Akron, Ohio, in 2000. She became a citizen in 2007.

She initially told immigration officials her husband had not served in the Bosnian Serb military. That was a lie, she later conceded, and lower courts upheld a criminal conviction against her. The conviction automatically revoked her citizenship, and she and her husband were deported in October.

Maslenjak was convicted by a jury that was told even an inconsequential lie was enough for a guilty verdict.

The high court returned the case to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to determine whether Maslenjak's false statements made a difference in the decision to grant her citizenship in the first place.

The case is Maslenjak v. U.S., 16-309.
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06-22-2017, 02:34 PM
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If someone was from the Nazi party, and murdered 1,000 Jews. Do we really want that person to become a USA citizen? Or relatives?

Does anyone know what the bosnian serb military did?
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06-22-2017, 02:58 PM
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If someone smoked weed and said they didn't, do we really want to strip their citizenship 25 years later and deport them? USCIS should have investigated further if they were suspicious.
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The responsibility of verifying the information lay with the government. They obviously must have deemed that info above the threshold to have approved her citizenship. It's too late to say we messed up and take it back after so many years.

The harm has already be done though since she's already been deported.
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If someone was from the Nazi party, and murdered 1,000 Jews. Do we really want that person to become a USA citizen? Or relatives?

Does anyone know what the bosnian serb military did?
Probably a bunch of war crimes
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If someone was from the Nazi party, and murdered 1,000 Jews. Do we really want that person to become a USA citizen? Or relatives?

Does anyone know what the bosnian serb military did?
Now ask yourself if that person's wife or children should be treated the same way.

Hell we're in this boat because our genome donors royally screwed up.
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Now ask yourself if that person's wife or children should be treated the same way.

Hell we're in this boat because our genome donors royally screwed up.
A wife, probably. She may have benefit from him being in the war and killing innocent people. She may have benefit by the army giving her money from people her husband killed.

I don't recall my father or mother killing innocent people in a war. They were poor people.

There is a reason why USCIS asks this kind of stuff.
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Played some role in naturalization.

Didnt this lying affect her process of naturalization?
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Is this retro ? Couldn't she come back
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06-23-2017, 10:56 PM
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Is this retro ? Couldn't she come back
Depends on what the 6th Circuit rules here. The case might bounce back and forth a little.

It is possible for the whole thing to get overturned and the government basically being ordered to act as if her citizenship was never revoked.
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