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It is ok for immigrants to lie. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...5fd8e0c288f_story.html?utm_term=.57fdeb162fcd
Article is behind a paywall. Can you provide a snip of the pertinent points?It is ok for immigrants to lie. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...5fd8e0c288f_story.html?utm_term=.57fdeb162fcd
It is ok for immigrants to lie. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...5fd8e0c288f_story.html?utm_term=.57fdeb162fcd
Kagan wrote that the government must show that an illegal act by the defendant “played some role in her acquisition of citizenship.”
When the illegal act is making a false statement, she said, prosecutors must show the lie was about facts that might have mattered to an immigration official, either because it would have justified denying naturalization or led to other facts that would have warranted that result.
“For my part, I believe it is work enough for the day to recognize that the statute requires some proof of causation, that the jury instructions here did not, and to allow the parties and courts of appeals to take it from there as they usually do,” Gorsuch wrote. “This court often speaks most wisely when it speaks last.”
Article is behind a paywall. Can you provide a snip of the pertinent points?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-citizenship.html
google is another option
This their reasoning (on their unanimous decision)
Kagan put forth a test, but Gorsuch didn't agree with that, though he held with the rest of the unanimous decison:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...5fd8e0c288f_story.html?utm_term=.7ea84c62d1d9
In essence, any lie shouldn't be enough to revoke citizenship. In this case the woman lied about her husband serving in the Bosnian military, a unit that may have perpetrated war crimes. What does that have to do personally with her? The court left it open to determine that, but on the face of it, as I understand, they didn't agree that any lie on the application was enough to revoke citizenship and would open the door to a lot of future problems. As I understand it.