He calls for the nationality of Zahran Mamdani to warn a warning about Trump’s activation of Trump’s weapon
WASHINGTON – Immediately after Zahran Mamdani became the supposed democratic candidate for the mayor of New York City last month, a member of the Republican Congress had a provocative proposal for the Trump administration: “He must be deported.”
Mamdani, born in Uganda, obtained American citizenship in 2018 after moving to the United States with his parents as a child. But MP Andy Oujlis, RR Tin. , Argument in After x He said that the Ministry of Justice should consider nullifying the words of the rap, which was proposed by Hamas’s support.
The Ministry of Justice refused to comment on whether it had responded to the message of Oujlis, but the White House press secretary Caroline Levitt He said Among his allegations about Mamdani, “Certainly if it is real, this is something to be investigated.”
Trump claimed himself without evidence that Al -Mamdani was an illegal immigrant, and when the former ally of Elon Musk was asked about the deportation of another volunteer citizen, He suggested that he would consider it.
The Congress member’s proposal is compatible with a priority from the Trump administration to intensify efforts to strip the citizenship of other manive Americans. The previous departments used this process, known as the change of nature, to remove terrorists, and decades before the Nazis and the Communists.
However, Trump’s announcement of the Ministry of Justice last month that “it will give priority to the procedures for changing nature and following up in a maximum in an alert between the immigration lawyer and preachers, who are afraid that the Trump administration will use the evaluation of political opponents.
Although previous departments periodically followed the nature changes, it is a mature area of abuse, according to Elizabeth Touva, a lawyer at the Immigrant Legal Resources Center.
She said, “It can be easily armed at any time,” she said.
Nour Zafar, a lawyer for immigration in the American Civil Liberties Union, said that there are “real risks and real threat” that the administration will target people based on their political opinions.
When asked about comments on weapons concerns, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice referred to the federal law that allows to return to justice, 8 USC 1451.
“We support our duty as the statute,” the spokesman said.
Trump’s immigrant groups and political opponents are already angry at the way the Trump administration has used the powers to enforce them to strangle the opposition in cases of legal immigrants who do not have the nationality of the United States.
Ice, Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who participates in protests on the campus that criticizes Israel for more than 100 days before his release. The Turkish student Rümeysa öztürk was also detained for two months because of her pro -Palestinian invitation.
On a wider scale, the administration was accused of violating the rights of migrants due to the due measures that sought to deport them quickly about the judges’ objection, and in cases that involve members of the alleged Venezuelan gangs and the man of Salvaduri Kilmar Abigo Garcia, the Supreme Court.
The removal of nature was traditionally rare, and in the past decades it focused on the completion of the former Nazis who fled to the United States after World War II under false allegations.
But the approach gradually changed after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. With the help of technological progress that made it easy to identify and follow people, the number of changes to nature changed gradually.
It was the Obama administration that seized this issue at the beginning, as it launched the so -called “Janus Operation”, which identified more than 300,000 cases as there were variations that included fingerprint data that could indicate possible fraud.
But the process is slow and requires large resources, with The first ambition As a result of the Janus operation, it was secured during the first period of Trump in January 2018.
This case included the Genever Singh, originally from India, which was deported but later became an American citizen after assuming a different identity.
In total, the Trump administration provided 102 distortion cases, with the Biden 24 administration provided, according to the official spokesman for the Ministry of Justice, who said that the numbers of the Obama administration were not available. The new Trump administration has already introduced five. To date, the Trump administration has prevailed in One case The inclusion of a man originally from the United Kingdom, which was previously convicted of receiving and distributing pornography for children. The Ministry of Justice refused to provide information on other new issues.
In general, cases of change of nature are brought against only a small percentage of About 800.00 people Those who become homogeneous citizens every year, according to the Ministry of Internal Security.
“Deliberate distortion”
The government has two ways to abolish citizenship, either by prosecuting a rare criminal for fraud or by a civil claim in the Federal Court.
The administration has set its priorities for civil enforcement in a June note It was released by Attorney General Brett Chopt, who included 10 possible reasons for targeting naturalized citizens.
Examples range from “individuals who are at risk of national security” or who have participated in war or torture crimes, for people who committed a civil care, or who fraud in the government. There is also a large -scale item that indicates “any other cases … the division decides to be enough to follow up.”
The printing law focuses on “concealing a material fact” or “deliberate distortion” during naturalization.
ZAFAR of Aclu said the memo leaves the Trump administration option at least an attempt to target people based on their speech or associations.
“Even if they do not think that they already have a reasonable opportunity to succeed, they can use it as a way to harass people only,” she added.
The Ministry of Justice can bring the issues of nature change to a wide range of behavior related to questions applying to American citizenship, including the condition that they were a “good moral figure” in the previous five years.
The Immigration Law includes many examples of what might exclude someone on a moral basis, including if it is a “usual drunk” or was convicted of illegal gambling.
the Vanger request form He asks herself a series of questions investigating a good moral personality, such as whether the applicant has participated in violent acts, including terrorism.
The model also inquires whether people have called for supporting groups that support communism, the “Foundation in the United States is a comprehensive dictatorship” or “illegal assault or killing” of any American official.
Failure to answer any of the questions or neglecting any information related to the elimination of citizenship can be.
In 2015, for example, Sami Chang, born in South Korea, who recently became an American citizen, His nationality has been canceled In the wake of his conviction in a criminal case of trafficking in women to work in a club he owns.
The government said that since Zhang was working in the plan during the time he was applying for naturalization, he failed to show a good moral personality.
But in both civil and criminal cases, the government must reach a high tape for canceling citizenship. Among other things, it must appear that any error or omission of naturalization was whether it was possible to grant citizenship.
On civil issues, the government must show “clear, convincing and unambiguous evidence that does not leave the issue in doubt” for victory.
“A simple game of Gotcha with naturalization applicants will not work,” said Jeremy Makini, a migration lawyer in North Carolina. “It will take great material material for the judge to strip someone of the nationality of the United States.”
Targeting the words of rap
In a tweet on June 26, Ojelz attached a letter he sent to the Prosecutor Bam Bondi asking her to think about following the Mamdani calendar, in part, because “he expressed open solidarity with individuals convicted of terrorist crimes before he became an American citizen.”
Ogles cited the words of rap written by Mamdani years ago, in which it expressed its support for “Holy Land Five”.
This appears to refer to five men involved in a Muslim charity based in the United States called the Holy Land Corporation who were I was convicted in 2008 Providing material support to the Palestinian group Hamas. Some activists say that the prosecution was the abortion of justice, which is fueled by anti -Muslims feelings in the wake of terrorist attacks on September 11.
Ogles’ and Mamdani Campaign did not respond to requests for suspension.
Talk to newsmax in JuneOgles expanded its reasons for the abolition of Mamdani’s nationality, indicating that the mayor’s candidate “failed to reveal” relevant information when he became a citizen, including his political associations. Ogles claimed that Mamdani is communist because of his identity as a democratic subscription, although the latter is not a communist group.
Auglis added the Trump administration, it could be used against Mamdani “to create a template for other individuals who come to this country,” he claimed, “wants to undermine our way of life.” (Even if Mamdani was distorted, it was not, unlike Oglaz’s claim, he faces the deportation automatically, because it is likely to re -put his previous as a permanent resident.)
In his appearance on “Meet the Press” in NBC on June 29, Mamdani said he was calling him to strip his nationality and deport him “a glimpse of life for many New York Muslim residents and many New York residents who are constantly informed that they do not belong to this city and this country they love.”
Tua, a lawyer, said that Mamdani’s targeting on rap words would be a very unusual case.
But she added, “They can outperform the reason for removing someone’s copies if he wants to.”
McKini, the former president of the American Immigration Lawyer Association, said that the relatively low number of changes in nature, including those seized during the first period of Trump’s state, showed how difficult the government is already stripping of their citizenship.
“But what could be very successful in continuing to create a climate of panic, anxiety and fear,” he added. “They are doing it well. So, the task has been accomplished in this regard.”