Can a person who is a legal US naturalized citizen be deported for committing a crime?
Answer:
Deportation is a federal issue. States do not deport individuals.
If a naturalized citizen falsified anything on their application for citizenship, then their citizenship can be revoked and they are deportable.
For example, if a former Nazi concentration camp guard failed to put that job on his application (I believe there is a specific question about involvement in Nazism) and became a US Citizen, he can lose his citizenship and be deported. This happened a few years ago.
If a naturalized citizen commited a crime AFTER naturalization (ie murder) he is NOT deportable because of that offense.
If a naturalized citizen joins a foreign military, there are circumstances where he can be stripped of citizenship and deported.
Um no but you can get arrested and that really sucks
Once you are a citizen, you can NEVER be deported.
P.S. - Dont do anything stupid now :)
First, it isn't a state issue.
Second, to deport you, they would have to first show that you lied on your citizenship application. On that, you had to state your criminal record, both things for which you'd been arrested AND things for which you were guilty, but not arrested.
If you didn't lie on the application form the federal government will not deport you.
However, we do as a nation have extradition agreements with other countries. Whether or not you are naturalized or born in the US, you may be extradited to face trial in another country if the state department agrees that there is a case for you to answer under that jurisdiction.
Deportation is federal. Citizenship conveys a protection from deportation, except for treason or fraud in obtaining naturalization.
This has only happened in cases of heinous crimes, such as the case with John Demjanjuk who was the Nazi guard, where they revoked his citizenship and deported him but more often than not,they have not been going after naturalized citizens. There are also some other reasons why a person can lose their citizenship and be deported
1. Convicted For An Act Of Treason Against The United States
2. Holding A Policy Level Position In A Foreign Country
3. Serving In Your Native Country’s Armed Forces If That Country Is Engaged In Hostilities Or At War With The United States. If your native country is engaged in hostile actions or is at war with America you need to be extremely careful. The US government will attempt to take away your US citizenship if they find out you are either aiding or serving in your native country’s armed forces in any capacity. Alternatively, the US government could try to nail you with a treason conviction and then strip you of your US citizenship.
4. Serving In Your Native Country’s Armed Forces As An Officer Or A Non-Commissioned Officer
5. Lying To The USCIS During The Naturalization Process
6. Refusal To Testify Before Congress About Your Subversive Activities
They go after permanent residents who commit felonies and have served the time.
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Of course, if he commit a felony, or a grave crime, they can removed its citizenship ANYTIME!!
And this even if he commit such a crime outside the US borders!!
No, cjsez nailed it.
Yes, they can have their citizenship stripped and be deported.
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In light of these principles, we now turn to the particular questions you have posed.
Question 1. What authority does the Department have to revoke the citizenship of individuals who were naturalized but had criminal convictions for offenses that disqualified them from citizenship as a matter of law?
Answer. The INS has authority to institute either administrative or judicial proceedings to denaturalize citizens whose criminal convictions, e.g., for aggravated felonies, disqualified them from citizenship as a matter of law. (Administrative proceedings are subject to judicial review.) See Part II(A) above. Whether the proceedings are administrative or judicial, the INS must establish the allegations in its complaint by clear, unequivocal and convincing evidence. See Part I above.
Now once they have Denaturalized them, they can at any time deport them.granted, this isnt an everyday thing...but they DO have the authority to do so...
Ignoring treason, & even then probably not (Aldrich Ames).
I'd imagine no. That would be revoking your "unalienable rights."
They are U.S. citizens & will remain so until they CHOOSE to withdraw that claim.
Yes, in extreme circumstances, and if there was fraud in obtaining citizenship.
I would like to think so, but since illegal Mexicans are warehoused in prisons in USA, I would expect naturalized Citizen criminals to also be there.
Too bad we can't ship all our death row inmates to some uninhabited island in the Pacific--citizens included.
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No, a Naturalized US Citizen cannot be "removed" for committing a crime. Eventually people will be denaturalized if Immigration continues to enforce their laws.
Denaturalization is the reverse of naturalization, when a state deprives one of its citizens of his or her citizenship. From the point of view of the individual, denaturalization means "revocation" or "loss" of citizenship. Denaturalization can be based on various legal justifications. The most severe form is the "stripping of citizenship" when denaturalization takes place as a penalty for actions considered criminal by the state, often only indirectly related to nationality, for instance for having served in a foreign military. In countries that enforce single citizenship, voluntary naturalization in another country will lead to an automatic loss of the original citizenship; the language of the law often refers to such cases as "giving up one's citizenship" or (implicit) renunciation of citizenship. Unlike these two cases, which affect also native-born citizens, naturalized citizens can lose their citizenship by an annulment of naturalization, also known as "administrative denaturalization" where the original act of naturalization is found to be invalid, for instance due to an administrative error or if it had been based on fraud (including bribery). In the US, the Bancroft Treaties in the 19th century regulated legislation concerning denaturalization.
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