com/news/av/world-us-canada-37230916/drug-dealerscriminals-rapists-what-trump-thinks-of-mexicans.
165. Stef W. Kight, Report: Trump said Haitian Immigrants
“All Have AIDS,” Axios (Dec. 23, 2017), https://www.axios.
com/report-trump-said-haitian-immigrants-all-haveaids-1515110820-4d6f7da4-ca7a-4e01-93297f25b49e709c.html.
166. Alex Daugherty, Trump called Haiti a ‘sh--hole’
campaigning in Miami in 2016, Woodward’s book says,
Miami Herald (Sept. 11, 2018), https://www.miamiherald.
com/news/politics-government/article218202540.html.
167. Michael D. Shear & Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Stoking
Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration
Agenda, N.Y Times, Dec. 23 2017, https://www.nytimes.
com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html.
168. Current as of May 2019.
169. Eleven (11) cases were closed or dismissed.
170. In 72 cases against naturalized U.S. citizens, the case
was resolved against them. At the time of review, one
denaturalization was on hold pending appeal, and in a
handful of cases revocation had not yet been ordered.
171. These figures cover only those cases for which the
Justice Initiative was able to accurately identify the
relevant information from the case materials obtained.
Median age was 51 years old, mode of 50, and age range
between 24-72 years old (N = 144); median naturalization
date was 9-10 years, with a mode of 11 years (N = 131).
172. Bond amounts were calculated based on 60 criminal
cases in which bail was ordered.
173. Press Release, Bernadette Rabuy & Daniel Kopf,
Detaining the Poor: How Money Bail Perpetuates an Endless
Cycle of Poverty and Jail Time, Prison Policy Initiative (May
10, 2016), https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/
incomejails.html.
174. Very few case files mentioned Operation Janus or
Operation Second Look. Cases in which a fingerprint
analysis or failure to disclose a prior removal were
mentioned as evidence against the defendant were coded
as Operation Janus/Operation Second Look cases. This is
likely a conservative estimate. “Fraudulent documents”
cases and “immigration issue” cases may also be
Operation Janus/Operation Second Look cases, though
fingerprinting or a prior removal order were not mentioned. Cases coded as “immigration issue” include
allegations such as not disclosing an alias. “Fraudulent
document” cases cover, for example, allegations that the
defendant used another person’s passport or an alias to
procure a document used to enter the U.S., or to apply for
a benefit. The Justice Initiative does not have disaggregated data on case types in pre-2017 cases.
175. See Chapter IV, Political Attacks on Citizenship by Birth
170
in the United States.
176. See Immigration Direct, How Difficult is it to Become a
US Citizen, https://www.uscitizenship.info/articles/
how-difficult-is-it-to-become-a-us-citizen/
177. Citizenship acquired by naturalization or by birth
may be voluntarily relinquished.
178. Comment, Denaturalization of Nazi War Criminals: Is
There Sufficient Justice for Those Who Would Not Dispense
Justice, 40 Md. L. Rev. 39, 46-47 (1981).
179. See Gorbach v. Reno, 219 F.3d 1087, 1094 (9th Cir.
2000) (USCIS is permanently enjoined from revoking
citizenship status); see also Immigrant Legal Resource
Center (ILRC), Practice Advisory: Denaturalization
(December 2018), at 9 (“Administrative Denaturalization
Enjoined”).
180. Nikki Marquez & Eric Cohen, Denaturalization – Understanding the Process and Recent Increases in Denaturalization Efforts, ILRC (Dec. 2018), https://www.ilrc.org/
sites/default/files/resources/denaturalization_und_prcs_
rcnt_effrts-20181221.pdf.
181. In December 2018, the Justice Initiative requested
this specific information through a Freedom of Information Act request, but had not received responsive
information at the time of publication.
182. 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a); INA § 340(a).
183. 8 U.S.C. § 1451(e), referencing 18 U.S.C. § 1425.
184. 8 U.S.C. § 1440(c); INA § 329(c).
185. 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a); INA § 340(a).
186. Nikki Marquez & Eric Cohen, Denaturalization – Understanding the Process and Recent Increases in Denaturalization Efforts, ILRC, at 3 (Dec. 2018), https://www.ilrc.org/
sites/default/files/resources/denaturalization_und_prcs_
rcnt_effrts-20181221.pdf.
187. 12 USCIS Policy Manual L.2 § (B)(1), Grounds for
Revocation, https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/
volume-12-part-l-chapter-2 (emphasis added); 8 U.S.C. §
1451(a). Concealments or misrepresentations can be made
orally, for instance, during the naturalization interview, or
written in the naturalization application. USCIS also
considers omissions to constitute concealments or
misrepresentations. 12 USCIS Policy Manual L.2 § (B)(1),
Grounds for Revocation, available at https://www.uscis.
gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2.
188. Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759, 760 (1988).
189. Id. at 761.
190. 12 USCIS Policy Manual L.2 § (B)(1), Grounds for
Revocation, https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/
volume-12-part-l-chapter-2.
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