Daily News Article - February 27, 2020
1. What will the DOJ’s newly established Denaturalization Section do? Be specific.
2. Define the following as used in the article:
naturalize, denaturalize, fraudulent
3. What questions does the N-400 naturalization form ask an applicant regarding criminal activity?
4. How did Assistant AG Jody Hunt explain the need for and purpose of the Denaturalization Section?
5. To which naturalized citizens who commit a crime will the denaturalization proceedings not apply?
6. What happens to those citizens who have been stripped of their naturalization?
7. Consider the following:
Citizens cannot lie on an application. For example: a job application, drivers license, tax forms, voter registration, scholarship applications, college financial aid, etc. …
(Did you know? - Intentionally providing false and misleading information on the FAFSA is fraud. The penalties for lying on the FAFSA include, but are not limited to, fines of up to $20,000 and up to five years of jail time, in addition to repaying the financial aid received by the student.)
The rule of law is the legal principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to arbitrary decisions by individual government officials. All government officers of the United States, including the President, the Justices of the Supreme Court, state judges and legislators, and all members of Congress, pledge first and foremost to uphold the Constitution. These oaths affirm that the rule of law is superior to the rule of any human leader.
David Papke writes at the American Bar Association website (Aug. 22, 2019):
Even before the United States was a nation, there was talk among colonists that laws should govern a new nation, not individuals, including kings or queens, as they’d seen in Britain and other countries. One colonist, Thomas Paine, produced a booklet in 1776 called Common Sense, and it became a bestseller by today’s standards. In it, he detailed how, “in America, law is king.”
No country can maintain a rule of law society if its people do not respect the laws. Everyone must make a commitment to respect laws, legal authorities, legal signage and signals, and courts.
The U.S. is governed by the rule of law. What obligation do you think the President and/or Congress has to address the issue of people lying about criminal activity on their citizenship applications?
View Form N-400 as a PDF in Adobe Reader -- this link added 3:21 pm EST
From the US Citizenship and Immigration Services uscis .gov/n-400 website.