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In reply to the discussion: OMFG!! he got forced back to Germany!!! [View all]VMA131Marine
(4,137 posts)Even a naturalized US citizen cannot legally be deported unless it is found that the naturalization was based on fraud in the application. That can take years to adjudicate, as we have seen with Germans who were suspected of Nazi war crimes. That circumstance obviously would not apply here. There is nothing you can do after naturalization to cause your citizenship to be revoked, though you can obviously renounce it. Even that is not a trivial or cheap process. The only way ICE could bring him in and deport him this quickly is if he were never a citizen in the first place.
Having an American parent would seem to make this person a citizen from birth, but proving that might be problematic if the father were not listed on the birth certificate.
Again, this is all predicated on ICE itself acting within the law, but it would take hearings and a judge to rule that citizenship had been obtained fraudulently.