Overview
- - The Justice Department said Thursday it won court orders stripping citizenship from two people earlier in the week and filed a separate denaturalization case on March 17.
- - Vladimir Volgaev, a Ukrainian native whose citizenship was revoked Monday, concealed a scheme to ship more than a thousand gun parts overseas and lied about housing benefits fraud, and a judge found he lacked the required good moral character and gave false testimony.
- - Mirelys Cabrera Diaz, a Cuban native whose 2017 naturalization was voided Tuesday, admitted to a Medicare prescription kickback scheme from 2011 to 2014, pleaded guilty in 2019, and the court ruled her conduct barred her from meeting naturalization standards.
- - Prosecutors also sued to revoke Alec Nasreddine Kassir’s citizenship, alleging he obtained it through a sham marriage and false statements under oath, and noting his 2018 guilty plea to passport fraud; the complaint is civil and the claims must still be proven in court.
- - Coverage places the actions in a broader trend as DOJ leaders call citizenship fraud a priority, news outlets report staff shifts to find more cases, and recent tallies show filings rose during Trump’s first term compared with Biden’s, with Republicans seeking to expand denaturalization grounds.