1月首次由埃默提出的SCAM法案将扩大美国政府对被定罪参与恐怖主义、欺诈或间谍活动的归化公民剥夺公民身份的权力。该法案的参议院版本由密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特提出。
“这必须得到处理，”明尼苏达州共和党人埃默告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
“如果你要利用美国人的慷慨，或者你与已知恐怖组织有联系，或犯下严重重罪或发动恐怖袭击，甚至未遂，这都无关紧要；不要再玩游戏了，”埃默表示，”你应该被剥夺公民身份并被遣送回你来自的地方。”
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他哀叹现行法律下，”剥夺某人公民身份的标准太高了”，但指出”我们有解决方案来解决这个问题”。
该法案在众议院目前仍停留在众议院司法委员会，据埃默称，SCAM法案已获得近50名众议院共同提案人支持。一旦安排投票，他认为不会有通过障碍，甚至可能获得一些民主党人的两党支持，因为他们认识到问题的严重性。
“这真的很简单，”他说，”信息是，恐怖分子无论是否归化，都不应该在美国领土上。”
[与归化公民相关的一系列袭击引发国家安全质疑]
警方称，3月初，塞内加尔出生的归化公民恩迪亚加·迪亚涅在奥斯汀枪击案中涉嫌杀害三人、打伤十余人后被警方击毙。
不久之后，据警方称，来自土耳其和阿富汗归化公民家庭的埃米尔·巴拉特和易卜拉欣·卡尤米据称支持”伊斯兰国”（ISIS）并企图在纽约市市长官邸外的反伊斯兰示威活动中引爆炸弹。他们被控企图向ISIS提供物质支持、使用大规模杀伤性武器以及运输、接收和持有破坏性装置等多项爆炸物相关罪名。
3月12日，原黎巴嫩归化美国公民艾曼·穆罕默德·加扎利据称企图驾车冲撞密歇根州一所犹太教堂，该教堂内有儿童和教师，据当局称。
同一天，弗吉尼亚州诺福克市老多米尼昂大学，塞拉利昂归化公民穆罕默德·拜勒·贾洛赫据称向预备役军官训练团（ROTC）学生开枪，打死布兰登·沙阿中校，警方称。他在现场被击毙。
“显然我们的移民系统存在问题，”埃默表示，补充说恐怖分子”不断进入我国，却不断被允许留在这里，这是以美国人和美国生命为代价的”。
“我们不能再这样下去，”他继续说道，强调”现在比以往任何时候都更迫切需要完成这项工作”。
[前圣战分子在纽约市ISIS启发的爆炸阴谋后警告掠夺性招募]
尽管如此，埃默在明尼苏达州因其强硬立场面临一些反对。
当地媒体MPR新闻报道，他所在选区非盈利组织”非洲移民和难民组织中心”执行董事社区活动家领袖阿卜迪卡迪尔·巴希尔指责埃默”试图在政治上抹杀我们”。
“当公民身份取决于政客是否觉得我们方便时，我们谁都不安全，”巴希尔在接受该媒体采访时表示，”今天可能是索马里裔美国人，明天可能是另一个族群。”
尽管他不愿猜测法案通过的时间线，但表示”尽快是我的请求”。
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“我们有一个移民系统，没有要求这些人真正声明对美国的忠诚和成为美国人的意愿，”他说。
“我们希望任何来自任何地方的人来这里追求美国梦并成为美国人……我们欢迎你，”他总结道，”如果你来到这里不打算成为美国人，而是打算改变或摧毁美国，你就该滚出去。”
彼得·皮内多是福克斯新闻数字版政治记者。
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer says a string of recent terrorist attacks by naturalized citizens exposes serious flaws in U.S. immigration law, arguing it’s “more imperative now than ever” to pass the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation (SCAM) Act to allow the government to remove “America-hating terrorists” from the country.
First introduced by Emmer in January, the SCAM Act would expand the U.S. government’s ability to revoke citizenship from naturalized citizens convicted of being involved in terrorism, fraud or espionage. The Senate version of the bill was introduced by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.
“This has to be dealt with,” Emmer, a Minnesota Republican, told Fox News Digital.
“If you’re going to take advantage of the generosity of Americans, or you are going to associate with known terrorist organizations or commit aggravated felonies or terrorist attacks, even attempted, it doesn’t matter; no more playing games,” said Emmer. “You should be denaturalized and shipped back to wherever the heck you came from.”
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He lamented that under current law, “the standards to denaturalize someone are just too high,” but noted, “we have a solution to fix it.”
The bill, which on the House side currently sits in the House Judiciary Committee, allows prosecutors to use crimes committed after naturalization as evidence that an individual falsely claimed good moral character during the citizenship process, effectively arguing their citizenship was invalid from the start.
The SCAM Act already has nearly 50 House co-sponsors, according to Emmer. Once it is scheduled for a vote, he believes it will not have an issue passing and may even receive some bipartisan support from Democrats recognizing the gravity of the issue.
“It’s really simple,” he said. “The message is, terrorists do not belong on U.S. Soil, naturalized or not.”
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At the start of March, Senegalese-born naturalized citizen Ndiaga Diagne was killed by police after allegedly killing three people and injuring more than a dozen in a shooting in Austin, police said.
Not long after, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, the children of naturalized citizens from Turkey and Afghanistan, allegedly pledged support to ISIS and attempted to bomb an anti-Islam demonstration outside the mayor’s mansion in New York City, according to police. They have been charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and multiple explosives-related offenses including transporting, receiving and possessing destructive devices.
Then, on March 12, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Lebanon, allegedly attempted to ram his vehicle into a Michigan synagogue filled with children and teachers, according to authorities.
The same day at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone, allegedly opened fire on a class of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, according to police. He also was killed at the scene.
“Clearly something is broken in our immigration system,” said Emmer, adding that terrorists “keep getting into our country and they keep being allowed to stay here at the expense of Americans and American lives.”
“We can’t go on like this,” he went on, emphasizing, “It is more imperative now than ever that we get this thing done.”
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Despite this, Emmer has faced some opposition in Minnesota for his hardline stance.
Local outlet MPRNews reported a community activist leader in his district named Abdikadir Bashir, who is executive director of the nonprofit Center for African Immigrants and Refugees Organization, accusing Emmer of “trying to erase us politically.”
“The moment citizenship becomes conditional on whether a politician finds us convenient, none of us is safe,” Bashir said, according to the outlet. “Today, it might be the Somali Americans. Tomorrow, it could be another ethnic group.”
Though he declined to hazard a guess on a timeline of when the bill might be passed, he said that “as soon as possible would be my plea.”
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“We have an immigration system that is not requiring these people to actually declare their allegiance to the United States of America and their willingness to be Americans,” he said.
“We want anybody and everybody from anywhere who comes here to chase their American dream and become an American … we want you,” he concluded. “If you come here and you don’t intend to become an American, you intend to change America or destroy America, you need to get the heck out.”
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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