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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Justice Department Secures Denaturalization of Convicted War Criminal Who Fraudulently Obtained Refugee Status and U.S. Citizenship

Defendant Concealed that She Had Murdered Six Unarmed Civilians and Prisoners of War During the 1990s Balkans Conflict

On March 1, Judge Marco A. Hernandez of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon entered an order revoking the naturalized U.S. citizenship of a convicted war criminal. The court held that defendant Sammy Rasema Yetisen aka Rasema Handanovic aka Zolja, a native of the former Yugoslavia, illegally procured her U.S. citizenship. The court’s order was based on its finding that Yetisen lacked the good moral character required to naturalize because she had executed six unarmed civilians and prisoners of war during the 1990s Balkans Conflicts because of their religion and ethnicity. She later concealed her crimes to procure refugee status and U.S. citizenship in the United States.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-denaturalization-convicted-war-criminal-who-fraudulently-obtaine-0

Bloomberg will not run for president

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/bloomberg-will-not-run-for-president

Apprehension of undocumented families in Texas continues to surge

So far this fiscal year, detainments of families on the U.S.-Mexico border have more than tripled from the same period last year.

From Oct. 1, when the federal government’s 2019 fiscal year began, through February, about 136,150 family units were apprehended on the southwest border — a 338 percent jump from the same period last year, when 31,100 families were apprehended, according to CBP statistics released Tuesday.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/03/05/apprehension-undocumented-families-texas-continues-surge/?