WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is ramping up an effort to deport felony unlawful aliens and shall be asserting denaturalization actions towards 10 of them on Monday — together with a fraudster who bilked taxpayers out of almost $1 million in Medicare funding, The Publish has discovered.
The Division of Justice filed actions up to now 30 days towards naturalized US residents from Mexico, Cuba, Pakistan, Peru and Poland who have been convicted of well being care fraud, wire fraud, immigration fraud, youngster intercourse abuse and drug trafficking.
The transfer is a part of what administration officers have dubbed the “largest denaturalization effort ever” and contains one of many first makes an attempt to take away a well being care fraudster from the US.
“These ten felony aliens — together with youngster intercourse abusers, a $900,000 Medicare fraudster, and a cocaine trafficker — lied their means into U.S. citizenship,” stated Appearing Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche in an announcement.
“While you commit fraud through the naturalization course of, you forfeit the precise to maintain your U.S. citizenship,” added Homeland Safety Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “These felony aliens, comprised of drug traffickers, pedophiles, and fraudsters, misplaced that proper and exploited our immigration system—harming actual U.S. residents. DHS is dedicated to making sure we denaturalize and take away these fraudsters with each instrument at our disposal.”
Yoskmaikel Rodriguez Perez was convicted in January 2020 of working a faux medical middle in Miami that fraudulently billed Medicare greater than $886,694 for “pointless prescriptions to HHAs [Home Health Agencies], pharmacies, and affected person recruiters,” in accordance with a July 18 submitting.
The 45-year-old Cuban native had turn into a naturalized US citizen in 2018.
Two former Catholic clergymen — Urbano Vazquez Ortega and Martin Stanislaw Garbacz — additionally had actions submitted towards them after being convicted of kid intercourse crimes.
Ortega is presently serving a 15-year jail sentence for second-degree youngster intercourse abuse after he assaulted minors whereas working as a priest at a Washington, DC, church earlier than, throughout and after turning into a naturalized citizen in 2017.
The Mexican native “sexually abused minor females from his congregation,” Sacred Coronary heart Shrine, by groping their breasts, buttocks and even placing “his tongue within the mouth” of one in every of them, a July 10 submitting famous.
Garbacz, a Polish native, was convicted on 65 counts of stealing greater than $250,000 from three Catholic parishes whereas serving between 2012 and 2019 as a priest in Fast Metropolis, SD, in addition to participating in illicit sexual conduct by filming a 17-year-old male in a lodge bathe throughout a parish journey to Krakow.
The 47-year-old was sentenced to 117 months in jail in 2022. Garbacz had turn into a naturalized US citizen in 2014 and now faces denaturalization, per a July 6 submitting.
One other June 15 denaturalization submitting towards Mexican native Omar Cantu-Montalvo additionally cited his 2016 conviction for conspiring to distribute greater than 5 kilograms of cocaine. The 44-year-old served a 100-month sentence after having turn into a naturalized citizen in 2005.
The opposite denaturalization actions have been filed in federal courts towards Ceflo Luviano-Mojica, a Mexican native, for mendacity on his naturalization utility about not having been arrested for grand theft and concealing a firearm; Murtaza Ali, a Pakistan native, for submitting false functions for immigration advantages underneath a pseudonym; and Jimmy Aguero, a Peru native, for sexual abuse of his minor stepdaughter.
Mexican natives Francisco Montano and Martin Garcia Cardiel have been additionally pushed into denaturalization proceedings for youngster intercourse crimes.
Antonio Alcantara-Ruiz, one other Mexican native, had a denaturalization motion introduced towards him for purchasing faux IDs to get a everlasting residency card after which to use for naturalization.
“Every of those people lacked the nice ethical character required by legislation and procured citizenship via willful misrepresentations and concealment of their crimes,” added Blanche.
“Below President Trump’s management, this Division of Justice will proceed to aggressively pursue denaturalization to revive integrity to America’s naturalization course of.”
