利比里亚裔归化公民因入籍欺诈被剥夺美国国籍 已自费乘单程航班离境前往欧洲
Raleigh, North Carolina——美国司法部北卡罗来纳东区联邦检察官办公室10月19日宣布，72岁的利比里亚裔男子 Cyril Domaquik Clemens 已于10月12日从 Raleigh-Durham 国际机场（RDU）乘单程航班自行离境、前往欧洲。今年9月下旬，一名联邦法官以入籍欺诈罪对 Clemens 判刑，并撤销其通过归化取得的美国国籍，命令他自费自行离境；此后约三周，他在美国联邦缓刑官署的持续监管下离境。
检方表示，Clemens 于2021年2月19日宣誓入籍。调查发现，他在向美国公民及移民服务局（U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS）提交的入籍申请文件与入籍面谈中，就涉及强制性接触以及涉及未被逮捕的犯罪等问题，在宣誓下作出重大虚假陈述，两项关键问题均回答「没有」。州法院记录显示，他于2023年4月3日在 Durham County 高等法院就三项猥亵儿童罪认罪，被判处16至29个月监禁，并被命令登记为性犯罪者；检方指相关犯罪发生在2011年11月至2022年3月之间，即其提出入籍申请之前，但他被州执法人员逮捕是在入籍仪式之后，USCIS 在批准其申请时并不知情。
本案由移民执法局（U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE）遣返行动局与国土安全调查局派驻证件与福利欺诈专案组的人员，会同 USCIS 欺诈侦测与国家安全部门调查，是「虚假避风港行动」（Operation False Haven）的一部分，该行动针对以欺诈手段取得移民福利的重罪人员。联邦检察官 Ellis Boyle 公布了离境消息，并表示检方全程监督其离境执行。
Denaturalized Liberian Man Self-Deports to Europe After Naturalization Fraud Sentence in North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced on October 19 that Cyril Domaquik Clemens, 72, a native of Liberia, self-deported on October 12, 2026, boarding a one-way flight from Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) to Europe. In late September, a federal judge sentenced Clemens for naturalization fraud and revoked his naturalized U.S. citizenship, ordering him to leave the country at his own expense; about three weeks later, under the constant supervision of the U.S. Probation Office, he departed the United States.
Prosecutors said Clemens took the oath of citizenship on February 19, 2021. Investigators found that, in his naturalization application paperwork and interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), he knowingly made materially false statements under penalty of perjury, answering no to questions about involvement in forced sexual contact and about crimes for which he had not been arrested. State court records show that on April 3, 2023, in Durham County Superior Court, Clemens pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent liberties with a child, was sentenced to 16 to 29 months in prison, and was ordered to register as a sex offender; prosecutors said the offenses occurred between November 2011 and March 2022, before his naturalization application, but that state officers did not arrest him until after his naturalization ceremony, so USCIS did not know of them when it approved his application.
The case was investigated by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations agents assigned to the Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force, together with USCIS's Fraud Detection and National Security division, as part of Operation False Haven, an initiative targeting serious felons who fraudulently obtain immigration benefits. U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle announced the departure.
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