US Courts Sentence Fraudsters, Revoke Citizenship

Several federal cases this month involved people accused or convicted of using another person’s identity or fraudulent documents to claim U.S. citizenship. A U.S. citizen living in Ciudad Juárez was sentenced to 15 months in prison for selling his birth certificate to a Mexican citizen, while a man in Kentucky received a three-year sentence for using documents bearing another citizen’s identifying information to support a false citizenship claim. In Texas, a jury convicted a man of passport fraud and aggravated identity theft after prosecutors said he used the identity of a deceased American child for decades to obtain U.S. documents; sentencing is scheduled for March 2027. Separately, federal courts revoked the citizenship of two naturalized citizens who concealed criminal conduct during the naturalization process, part of a Justice Department effort targeting citizenship obtained through fraud.