University (Nov. 24, 2010), https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/
NSAEBB/NSAEBB331/index.htm.
264. Judy Feigin, The Office of Special Investigations:
Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
49 (December 2006), https://www.nytimes.com/
interactive/projects/documents/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1.
265. Id. at 526.
266. Andrew Nagorski, The Nazi Hunters 318 (2016).
Patrick Weil recites the following figures between 1979
and 2012: “OSI and its successor the Human Rights and
Special Prosecutions Section, pursued the denaturalization or deportation of 137 individuals on the basis of
participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution. 86
such persons have been denaturalized (the last one in
2007) and 67 have been removed.”). Patrick Weil, The
Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the
American Republic 178 (2013).
267. Public Law 108-408, §§ 5501-26, 118 Stat. 3638
(2004).
268. Judy Feigin, The Office of Special Investigations:
Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
49 (December 2006), https://www.nytimes.com/
interactive/projects/documents/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1
(citing three OSI cases to come before the Supreme Court:
Federenko v. United States (1981), Kungys v. United States
(1988), and United States v. Balsys (1998)).
269. Comment, Denaturalization of Nazi War Criminals: Is
There Sufficient Justice for Those Who Would Not Dispense
Justice?, 40 Maryland L. Rev. 39, 88-89 (1981).
270. Beth Van Schaack, EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s War Crimes
Unit on the Chopping Block, Just Security (Feb.10, 2019),
https://www.justsecurity.org/62548/exclusive-fbis-war-crimes-unit-chopping-block/.
271. See Gregory S. Gordon, OSI’s Expanded Jurisdiction
under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of
2004, in 54 U.S. Attorneys’ Bulletin (January 2006), at 24.
IRTPA gave OSI authority over cases of naturalized
citizens “who participated abroad in acts of genocide or,
acting under color of foreign law, participated in acts of
torture or extrajudicial killing.” Id. at 25.
272. See United States Department of Justice Office of the
Inspector General (DOJ-OIG), Special Report: An
Investigation of the INS’s Citizenship USA Initiative, https://
oig.justice.gov/special/0007/.
273. See Rosemary Jenks, Testimony Prepared for the U.S.
House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims,
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) (Apr. 30, 1997),
https://cis.org/United-States-Citizenship. In addition to
IRCA eligibility, CIS cites the passage of Proposition 187 in
174
California (November 1994) and proposed legislation to
restrict access to public benefits for non-citizens as
negative incentives that could drive an increase in
applications for naturalization.
274. DOJ-OIG, Special Report: An Investigation of the INS’s
Citizenship USA Initiative, https://oig.justice.gov/
special/0007/.
275. DOJ-OIG, Special Report: An Investigation of the INS’s
Citizenship USA Initiative – Criminal History, 155 n.143,
https://oig.justice.gov/special/0007/crimhist.pdf.
276. Patrick Weil, The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization
and the Origins of the American Republic 179 (2013).
277. Timothy M. Belsan, Aram A. Gavoor, Jennifer E.
Levy, and Holly D’Andrea-Read, Civil Immigration
Enforcement in National Security Cases, in 65 U.S.
Attorneys’ Bulletin (July 2017), at 19, https://www.justice.
gov/usao/page/file/984701/download.
278. In February 2018, a leaked copy of the “Denaturalization Investigations Handbook” dated January 15, 2008,
appeared. ICE, Office of Investigations, Denaturalization
Investigations Handbook, OI HB 08-01, Jan. 15, 2008,
https://www.unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/
uploads/2018/02/Denaturalization-full-hsi.pdf. The
handbook “includes information an agent would consult
on whether to attempt stripping citizenship, and the
intricacies of building up the case against a naturalized
citizen.” Government Attic, a public records website,
obtained the HSI “Special Agent Manual Index” through a
FOIA request on January 28, 2018, and indicates that, at
least until 2016, the leaked version remained in use.
Government Attic, ICE FOIA Case Number 2017-ICFO-16778 (Jan. 29, 2018), https://www.governmentattic.
org/26docs/ICE-HSIspecAgentManTOC_2016.pdf.
279. ICE, Office of Investigations, Denaturalization
Investigations Handbook, OI HB 08-01, Jan. 15, 2008,
https://www.unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/
uploads/2018/02/Denaturalization-full-hsi.pdf.
280. Id.
281. Id.
282. Id.
283. Id.
284. DHS-OIG, Potentially Ineligible Individuals Have Been
Granted U.S. Citizenship Because of Incomplete Fingerprint
Records, OIG-16-130, at 1 n.1 (Sept. 8, 2016), https://www.
oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2016/OIG-16-130-Sep16.pdf.
285. Id. at 1.
286. Id. at 6.
287. See Adiel Kaplan, Miami Grandma Targeted as U.S.
Takes Aim at Naturalized Immigrants With Prior Offenses,
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