2026-05-08T14:00:06-04:00 / 福克斯新闻
代理司法部长托德·布兰奇：任何在入籍过程中“虚假陈述”者都将承担后果
作者：阿什利·奥利弗 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年5月8日 美国东部时间下午2:00
美国司法部已加大使用一种极少被启用的法律手段剥夺公民身份的力度，将目标对准12名被指控隐瞒与恐怖主义、暴力犯罪及其他违法行为关联的归化美国公民，并暗示后续将有更多类似案件跟进。
周五针对这12名移民的行动包括提起民事诉讼或指控，涉案人员分别来自伊拉克、索马里、中国和印度。此次行动之际，代理司法部长托德·布兰奇正推动扩大通常难度极高的剥夺公民身份工作，且此次行动也恰逢司法部民事司去年夏天发布一份备忘录，要求加大剥夺公民身份的力度，该备忘录呼应了特朗普政府的优先事项，包括打击非法移民和欺诈行为。
布兰奇在周五针对福克斯新闻数字频道发表的关于此次全面执法行动的声明中表示，任何“在入籍过程中故意隐瞒犯罪记录或虚假陈述的人，都将受到法律的最严厉制裁。”
联邦政府启动针对明尼苏达州难民的行动 因欺诈调查面临驱逐风险
代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示：“拜登政府时期出现的武器化执法现象不会重演，我们正在恢复检察系统的公正性。”（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社）
12名涉案人员之一阿里·优素福·艾哈迈德自称2009年因基地组织恐怖分子袭击其家人而逃离伊拉克，随后获得了公民身份，当局表示。但当局称，伊拉克方面2019年请求引渡艾哈迈德，指控其作为基地组织头目期间谋杀了两名伊拉克警察，而他据称未向美国政府披露这一细节。
另一名来自索马里的萨拉赫·奥斯曼·艾哈迈德于2007年入籍，2009年因向恐怖分子提供物质支持认罪，且曾加入恐怖组织青年党，福克斯新闻数字频道获悉。司法部指控，在入籍后五年内加入恐怖组织是撤销公民身份的理由。
其他涉案人员包括来自乌兹别克斯坦的阿卜杜沃西特·拉齐科夫，据称他通过虚假婚姻获取公民身份；以及来自哥伦比亚的奥斯卡·阿尔贝托·佩莱斯，一名牧师，在美国被判处13项猥亵未成年人罪名成立，包括鸡奸，且据称在入籍过程中对相关犯罪行为撒谎，福克斯新闻数字频道获悉。
美国公民及移民服务局表示，已有超过2万份申请提交，旨在任命国土保卫人员审核公民身份申请。（凯纳·贝坦库尔/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
长期以来，剥夺公民身份一直是移民执法中一项不常使用的手段。在约30年的时间里，司法部共提起约305起剥夺公民身份的案件。2017年特朗普首次就职时，政府提起了168起相关案件。这一数字在乔·拜登总统任期内大幅下降，而如今特朗普重新执政，这项工作再次成为焦点。
参议院共和党人推动针对明尼苏达州丑闻中的欺诈者实施驱逐及剥夺公民身份
加州前联邦检察官尼玛·拉赫马尼告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，检察官要剥夺移民的公民身份，必须达到很高的举证标准，需要以“清晰且有说服力”的证据证明入籍过程中存在“重大欺诈”，他表示这并非易事。
布兰奇在最近接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时警告称，那些“通过欺诈手段获得公民身份的人应该感到担忧”。
“我们的目标是谁？我们不会将目标局限于特定群体，只是想说，不幸的是，我认为未来几天和几周大家会听到更多相关消息，有很多美国公民本就不应该拥有公民身份，”布兰奇说道。
特朗普将目标对准非暴力且合法的移民 美国民众开始有所察觉
2026年5月6日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿白宫东厅举行的军人母亲庆祝活动中站在一旁。（安娜·穆尼迈尔/盖蒂图片社）
当被问及剥夺公民身份是“非常严厉的处罚”时，布兰奇反驳道：“获得公民身份本身就是一项非常重大的奖赏，而通过欺诈手段获取则另当别论。”
移民权利组织担忧，特朗普政府扩大取消公民身份的追查范围，让美国约2400万归化公民感到不安。
“人们担忧联邦政府的剥夺公民身份行动，可能导致许多在入籍申请中犯下轻微或无意失误或遗漏的人被剥夺美国公民身份，”论坛政策专家克里斯蒂安·佩尼切-保罗去年夏天写道。
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拉赫马尼指出，所谓的欺诈行为不能是微不足道或疏忽大意的，而必须是重大且故意的。
“这必须是实质性的欺诈，所谓实质性，指的是如果国土安全部当时知晓相关情况，就不会批准公民身份，”拉赫马尼说道，“这才是真正的标准。”
阿什利·奥利弗是福克斯新闻数字频道和福克斯商业频道的记者，负责报道司法部及法律事务。可将新闻线索发送至ashley.oliver@fox.com。
Trump DOJ escalates citizenship crackdown on group accused of hiding terror ties, violent crimes
2026-05-08T14:00:06-04:00 / Fox News
Acting AG Todd Blanche says anyone who ‘misrepresented themselves during the naturalization process’ will face consequences
By Ashley Oliver Fox News
Published May 8, 2026 2:00pm EDT
The Department of Justice has ramped up its use of a rarely deployed legal tool to strip citizenship, targeting 12 naturalized Americans accused of hiding ties to terrorism, violent crimes and other offenses, and signaling more cases will follow.
The action on Friday against 12 immigrants included bringing civil complaints or charges against those from Iraq, Somalia, China and India. It comes as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche touts expanding the typically difficult effort to denaturalize people and also follows the DOJ Civil Division ordering more denaturalizations in a memo last summer about the Trump administration’s priorities, which include cracking down on illegal immigration and fraud.
Blanche said in a statement to Fox News Digital of Friday’s sweeping enforcement action that anyone “who intentionally concealed their criminal histories or misrepresented themselves during the naturalization process will face the fullest extent of the law.”
FEDS LAUNCH OPERATION TARGETING MINNESOTA REFUGEES FOR POTENTIAL DEPORTATION AMID FRAUD INVESTIGATION
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News Digital, “The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system.”(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
One of the dozen, Ali Yousif Ahmed, gained citizenship after saying he fled Iraq in 2009 because al-Qaeda terrorists attacked his family, authorities said. But, authorities said, Iraq sought Ahmed’s extradition in 2019 for allegedly murdering two Iraqi police officers while a leader in al-Qaeda, a detail he allegedly omitted from the U.S. government.
Another, Salah Osman Ahmed of Somalia, naturalized in 2007 and pleaded guilty in 2009 to providing material support for terrorists and belonged to the terrorist group al-Shabaab, Fox News Digital learned. The DOJ alleged that joining a terrorist group within five years of naturalization was grounds for revoking citizenship.
Others included Abduvosit Razikov of Uzbekistan, who allegedly entered into a sham marriage to gain citizenship, and Oscar Alberto Pelaez of Colombia, a priest who was convicted in the United States of 13 counts of sexual abuse of a minor, including sodomy, and allegedly lied about the crimes during the naturalization process, Fox News Digital learned.
More than 20,000 applications have been submitted to become Homeland Defenders responsible for reviewing citizenship applications, USCIS said.(Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)
Denaturalization has long been an infrequent tool for immigration enforcement. In the span of about 30 years, the DOJ filed about 305 denaturalization cases. Then, when Trump first took office in 2017, the government brought 168 cases. The figure drastically reduced under President Joe Biden, and now with Trump back in office, the effort has returned to the fore.
SENATE REPUBLICANS PUSH TO DEPORT, DENATURALIZE FRAUDSTERS AMID MINNESOTA SCANDAL
Prosecutors must meet a high bar to denaturalize immigrants by proving with “clear and convincing” evidence that “material fraud” occurred during the naturalization process, Neama Rahmani, a California-based former federal prosecutor, told Fox News Digital, saying it was not an easy process.
Blanche warned during a recent CBS News interview that people “should be worried” if they obtained citizenship through fraud.
“Who our targets are? We are not limiting ourselves to anyone in particular except to say that unfortunately, and I think you’re going to hear more about this in the coming days and weeks, there are a lot of U.S. citizens who shouldn’t be,” Blanche said.
TRUMP IS TARGETING NONVIOLENT AND LEGAL IMMIGRANTS.AMERICANS ARE STARTING TO NOTICE
U.S. President Donald Trump stands by during a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House on May 6, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Pressed on denaturalization being a “very drastic penalty,” Blanche shot back, “It’s a very drastic reward being naturalized, committing fraud.”
Immigrants rights groups have raised worries that the some 24 million naturalized citizens in the United States have been left unsettled by the Trump administration’s broadened pursuit of revoking citizenship.
“There are concerns that the federal government’s denaturalization efforts could lead to the revocation of U.S. citizenship of many individuals who made minor or unintentional mistakes or omissions in their naturalization application,” Forum policy expert Christian Penichet-Paul wrote last summer.
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Rahmani noted that the alleged fraud cannot be trivial or negligent, but instead must be significant and intentional.
“It has to be something material, and material means that the citizenship would not have been granted had DHS known,” Rahmani said. “That’s really the standard.”
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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