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Makes fraud convictions deportable regardless of monetary-loss threshold, expands mandatory detention, and requires courts to revoke naturalization after qualifying convictions.
The bill strengthens and streamlines removal and denaturalization authority for fraud-related convictions to improve enforcement and public safety, but it does so by expanding mandatory detention, automatic denaturalization, and retroactive application that significantly reduce individualized review and raise due-process, family, and fiscal costs.
Noncitizens convicted of fraud against individuals, businesses, or governments will be more consistently removable, improving enforcement efficiency and deterrence against fraud.
People convicted of offenses listed in 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(A)(vi) will be subject to mandatory detention pending removal, which can reduce immediate public-safety risks by keeping certain noncitizens detained.
Courts are given explicit jurisdiction and an automatic rule to revoke naturalization at conviction, creating a clearer, more streamlined denaturalization process that reduces jurisdictional disputes and delays.
Naturalized people convicted of listed offenses will automatically lose citizenship at conviction without individualized judicial review, risking erroneous denaturalization and removal of appeal safeguards.
People placed in the new (A)(vi) category will face mandatory detention with reduced opportunity for discretionary release, increasing the likelihood of prolonged detention without individualized custody hearings.
Expanding deportable grounds to cover more fraud convictions risks deporting people for relatively low-dollar or plea-resolved offenses, causing family disruption and disproportionate consequences for immigrants who accept plea deals.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Official title: To subject aliens convicted of fraud to deportation and to bestow concurrent jurisdiction to revoke the citizenship of any naturalized United States citizen convicted of fraud on any court that enters such a conviction.
Introduced January 8, 2026 by Buddy Carter · Last progress January 8, 2026
Makes convictions for fraud (against private individuals, funds, corporations, or government entities) a new deportable offense regardless of the monetary-loss threshold, expands mandatory immigration detention categories to include that new fraud offense, and requires U.S. courts to revoke and cancel naturalization certificates when a naturalized citizen is convicted of an INA §237(a)(2) offense. The law takes effect on enactment and applies its denaturalization rule to covered fraud conduct committed on or after September 30, 1996, if the person was not arrested, charged, or indicted for that conduct before enactment.