U.S. chief justice alarmed at Trump administration immigration case stance

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Wed Apr 26, 2017 | 3:36pm EDT

U.S. chief justice alarmed at Trump administration immigration case stance

By Lawrence Hurley | WASHINGTON

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts took issue on Wednesday with the Trump administration's stance in an immigration case, saying it could make it too easy for the government to strip people of citizenship for lying about minor infractions.

Roberts and other Supreme Court justices indicated support for a deported ethnic Serb immigrant named Divna Maslenjak over her bid to regain her U.S. citizenship after it was stripped because she falsely stated her husband had not served in the Bosnian Serb army in the 1990s after Yugoslavia's collapse.

Roberts seemed particularly concerned that the government was asserting it could revoke citizenship through criminal prosecution for trivial lies or omissions.

He noted that in the past he has exceeded the speed limit while driving. If immigrants failed to disclose that on a citizenship application form asking them to list any instances of breaking the law, they could later lose their citizenship, the conservative chief justice said.

"Now you say that if I answer that question 'no,' 20 years after I was naturalized as a citizen, you can knock on my door and say, 'Guess what, you're not an American citizen after all?'" Roberts asked Justice Department lawyer Robert Parker.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-immigration-idUSKBN17S2GN

[sheshe2]

1. Roberts is questioning him?

Yikes.

[catsudon]

3. The person

In question was deported last year under obama administration.

But of course the current administration is in court today arguing for the government.

[Tanuki]

2. Would this allow Melania to be stripped of her citizenship

if it is demonstrated that she lied about working illegally in the U.S. when she first came here? All the more reason for her to hold the press conference her revolting husband claimed she would have and in which she would produce all her documents and clear up any questions, per his campaign promise. What is she hiding?