Can a person who is a legal US naturalized citizen be deported for committing a crime?

Question

If so is this always the case, or does it vary from state to state?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.
http://www.usimmigrationlawyers.com/content.cfm/Article/5821/What-is-Naturalization-Revocation--.html

Answer 3

Can Naturalized Citizens Be Deported

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

www.wikipedia.com/naturalization

Answer 6

Deportation is federal. Citizenship conveys a protection from deportation, except for treason or fraud in obtaining naturalization.

Answer 7

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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Answer 8

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!!

Answer 9

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.

Answer 10

Yes, in extreme circumstances, and if there was fraud in obtaining citizenship.