Justices Alarmed by Government’s Hard-Line Stance in Citizenship Case (illegal, fence)

[Goodnight]

This was an interesting hearing although different than the current issues it did connect back to Trump on some statements he made regarding deportation for minor offenses.

Wednesday’s case concerned Divna Maslenjak, an ethnic Serb who said she had faced persecution in Bosnia. She was granted refugee status at least partly on that basis in 1999 and became a United States citizen in 2007.


When this came to light, Ms. Maslenjak was charged with obtaining her citizenship illegally. She sought to argue that her lie was immaterial, but the trial judge told the jury that any lie, significant or not, was enough. Ms. Maslenjak was convicted, her citizenship was ordered revoked, and she and her husband were deported to Serbia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/u...ollection&_r=0

[T-310]

A lie is perpetrating a fraud to gain a benefit.

Fraud is a offence to which deportation is the result.

Thus she committed fraud by lying to gain a benefit or citizenship thus deserves to be stripped of citizenship and deported.

[Goodnight]

She did unquestionably lie, is that grounds for deportation. It seems like even some conservative justices were having fun with this.