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发帖数: 1551 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: horsemen (horseman), 信区: Military
标 题: 一名华裔美籍女子被美国联邦法官剥夺美国国籍
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 5 22:38:43 2014, 美东)
一名华裔美籍女子因涉入2007年的一件国家安全信息走漏事件而被美国联邦法官剥夺美
国国籍。这名45岁李姓女子在2005年加入美籍，她名义上的假丈夫是中国公民持绿卡，
去年被驱逐出境。李姓女子是亚利桑反恐信息中心的合同工，负责头像识别技术。
Grace Li became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005. In 2009, she pleaded
guilty to knowingly making false statements in her pursuit of citizenship.
Credit: Courtesy of Grace Li
A federal judge in Arizona has ordered the U.S. government to revoke the
citizenship of a woman at the center of a 2007 security breach involving a
Chinese national who worked inside an Arizona intelligence center.
U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell’s Aug. 26 order to strip Xunmei Grace
Li, a Chinese native, of her naturalized citizenship came the same day that
The Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica jointly reported the
previously undisclosed security breach involving data at the Arizona Counter
Terrorism Information Center.
The breach potentially exposed sensitive information in a state driver’s
license database of up to 5 million Arizona residents. Li, 45, previously
pleaded guilty to knowingly making false statements in her pursuit of
gaining U.S. citizenship, which she obtained in 2005.
The immigration-related fraud case began soon after the disappearance of a
Chinese national and computer programmer who worked at the intelligence
center was reported to the FBI, according to the federal immigration agent
who led the investigation.
Li did not respond to calls for comment. Her attorney, Don Bivens, wrote in
an email that they believed the government was pursuing her unfairly for
reasons they did not understand. Bivens declined to comment on whether Li
plans to appeal the judge’s decision to strip her of her citizenship.
“It has been a shame to see the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to
revoke citizenship from our client, who in our view simply made mistakes on
her naturalization application that are commonly made by hundreds of
immigrants every day,” he wrote.
Paul Haney, a retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who
investigated Li and Gang Chen, the father of Li's children, said the
government had suspicions that Li was involved in espionage, and there were
many unanswered questions about who she is, but the government erred on the
side of caution.
“We may never know. Absent a confession, we can only speculate. Maybe she
is telling the truth and she’s not an operative,” he said. “I don’t know
.”
Li repeatedly has denied that she is a Chinese operative or spy.
Christopher Dempsey, a U.S. Justice Department attorney who represented the
government at the trial, referred calls for comment to the Justice
Department. Federal court records show Dempsey’s docket is filled with
citizenship cases, including lawsuits tied to national security matters. In
one ongoing case, Dempsey is working to denaturalize a Syrian native
convicted of helping fund al-Qaida.
Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas said the department was pleased
with the court’s decision and Campbell’s order “speaks for itself.”
The court ruling followed a four-day bench trial in August that hinged on
allegations of bigamy and whether Li lacked good moral character. Li was
married to two men at the same time, but she contended that one of the
marriages was intended to appease the parents of her children’s father and
was not supposed to be real. The father, Chen, a onetime green card holder,
was deported last year.
Li also did not list her two U.S.-born children on her naturalization
application, an omission her attorneys argued was a simple and not uncommon
mistake.
Campbell, who earlier this year partially ruled in Li’s favor, ordered
denaturalization on four counts involving lack of good moral character.
Those included false statements, bigamy, an extramarital affair and
concealment or misrepresentation of facts to get citizenship. He wrote in
his opinion that he came to doubt Li’s credibility during the trial.
“The government has shown that Li procured her citizenship by
misrepresenting her marital status and concealing the existence of her
children,” Campbell wrote.
Denaturalization is a rare occurrence in the U.S., as the consequences are
severe and citizenship is highly prized. In recent years, the government has
prioritized denaturalization for serious criminals and national security
cases. Bigamy in and of itself generally does not rise to that level.
Patricia Corrales, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney who
was involved with many denaturalization cases in her career, said revoking
citizenship has been used in situations with national security concerns,
particularly when they involve false testimony, without disclosing secrets
or such suspicions.
“Now, most people think, “Bigamy, what’s the big deal with that?’ ”
said Corrales, who is now an immigration attorney in Southern California. “
We want only people who deserve to be U.S. citizens in this country to have
that status. If you’re going to lie about your kids, what else are you
going to be lying about?”
Li worked for a small Arizona technology contractor, which had brought
Lizhong Fan, a Chinese national and computer programmer, to work on a facial
recognition program at the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.
Fan previously had worked in China on a facial recognition program that was
set up by the contractor, Hummingbird Defense Systems, and its founder,
Steve Greschner. Hummingbird partnered with Chen’s company, Detaq Science,
on the project months after Li approached Greschner in 2002.
Fan, who was in the country on a special visa, abruptly left the country in
June 2007. Without notifying Greschner, Fan took two laptops, cellphones and
other company property.
The company reported the incident to the FBI, which opened an inquiry. An
immigration-related investigation soon followed, which eventually led to Li
’s arrest in 2008. She pleaded guilty in 2009 to knowingly making false
statements related to naturalization. A U.S. district judge sentenced her to
five years’ probation. | m********s
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: 标 题: 一名华裔美籍女子被美国联邦法官剥夺美国国籍
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 5 22:38:43 2014, 美东)
: 一名华裔美籍女子因涉入2007年的一件国家安全信息走漏事件而被美国联邦法官剥夺美
: 国国籍。这名45岁李姓女子在2005年加入美籍，她名义上的假丈夫是中国公民持绿卡，
: 去年被驱逐出境。李姓女子是亚利桑反恐信息中心的合同工，负责头像识别技术。
: Grace Li became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005. In 2009, she pleaded
: guilty to knowingly making false statements in her pursuit of citizenship.
: Credit: Courtesy of Grace Li
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发帖数: 29846 | | c****p
发帖数: 6474 | 4 联邦和州政府办事不力，这女的躺枪。
当初招人的时候不审核，现在人跑了抓介绍人当替罪羊。
【在 D****g 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
: 发信人: horsemen (horseman), 信区: Military
: 标 题: 一名华裔美籍女子被美国联邦法官剥夺美国国籍
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 5 22:38:43 2014, 美东)
: 一名华裔美籍女子因涉入2007年的一件国家安全信息走漏事件而被美国联邦法官剥夺美
: 国国籍。这名45岁李姓女子在2005年加入美籍，她名义上的假丈夫是中国公民持绿卡，
: 去年被驱逐出境。李姓女子是亚利桑反恐信息中心的合同工，负责头像识别技术。
: Grace Li became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005. In 2009, she pleaded
: guilty to knowingly making false statements in her pursuit of citizenship.
: Credit: Courtesy of Grace Li
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