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A recent decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) illustrates how the government can take away a person's citizenship and then deport the "alien." I've noted that, generally, actions you take after naturalization won't lead to a loss of citizenship. Exceptions are voluntary relinquishment and an act of expatriation. However, if a naturalized U.S. citizen hid something from the government that, if known, would have led to a naturalization denial, the government can denaturalize the citizen and then start removal (deportation) proceedings. That's what happened to Nazi concentration camp guard Josias Kumpf. When Kumpf was admitted to the U.S. in 1956, he neglected to mention that he had been a member of the notorious Nazi SS and that he had been a guard at concentration camps where the Nazis brutalized and murdered... [read full story]
