This bill would change the rules that let the United States cancel a person’s naturalization (denaturalize them). It adds new, specific reasons the government may bring a civil denaturalization case if the acts began or occurred within 10 years after the person was naturalized. Those reasons include: associating with or helping a foreign terrorist organization; committing or admitting to fraud against a federal, state, local, or tribal government involving at least $10,000; and committing or admitting to an aggravated felony or certain espionage and national-security offenses (a list of Title 18 and Title 50 offenses appears in the bill). The bill amends section 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to name the Attorney General as a party with duty to bring proceedings, to add the new grounds as prima facie evidence that the person lacked good moral character when naturalized, and to make any revocation effective back to the original naturalization date. It also says that if the 10-year period is held unconstitutional, courts should treat the period as 5 years. The bill adds that a person whose certificate is cancelled is removable through expedited removal proceedings.
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The bill’s findings state that naturalized citizenship carries duties and that people who commit fraud, affiliate with terrorist groups, or commit certain serious crimes after naturalization showed they lacked good moral character and attachment to the Constitution when they were naturalized. The bill’s text treats such conduct, when it occurs within the specified period, as prima facie evidence justifying revocation of the naturalization certificate and removal.
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