ICE Opens Its Aperture: To Begin Deporting Illegal Families w/ Existing Deportation Orders

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NEW: A former Archdiocese priest who was convicted of sexually abusing & molesting a child while serving as his priest has been stripped of his US citizenship and ordered deported to Colombia after an ICE investigation revealed he lied about his past to get US citizenship.

ICE says 69-year-old Jorge Antonio Velez-Lopez, a Colombian national, first entered the US in 2003 as a temporary religious worker. He applied for permanent residency in May 2007, and stated under penalty of perjury that he had never committed any crime of moral turpitude. He was granted permanent residency in November 2007.

He applied for US citizenship in 2013, once again stating under penalty of perjury that he had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested, and had never lied to gain admission to the US. He was then interviewed by a USCIS officer, to whom he provided the same answers, and he was naturalized as a US citizen that same year.

In 2020, he was arrested in Howard County, MD, and was convicted of sexually abusing a child for whom he had responsibility of supervising, and confessed to molesting the victim from 2003 through 2009 while serving as the child's priest, confirming he committed perjury during his US naturalization process.

ICE says they went through thousands of records to find the lies and fraud, all part of a nationwide ICE initiative designed to identify and prosecute child molesters and other egregious felons who fraudulently obtained US citizenship.

ICE statement:

“Child molesters like Velez who lied about their crimes to become citizens thought they could hide behind those who earned what they stole,” said ICE New Orleans acting Field Office Director Scott Ladwig. “They thought ICE would have to search through thousands of records to find them. They were right. That's exactly what we did. ICE and our partners will relentlessly defend the integrity of our nation's naturalization process.”

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while serving as his priest has been stripped of his US citizenship and ordered deported to Colombia

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If you skip all the nonsense and just hit this sick frick in the head with a brick repeatedly, the deportation/citizenship situation magically resolves itself.

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