The Fraud Accountability Act expands immigration enforcement by making fraud convictions a deportable offense for non-citizens and allowing courts to revoke citizenship for naturalized Americans convicted of fraud. Under current law, only certain high-loss fraud cases qualify as deportable offenses; this bill removes those financial thresholds and subjects any non-citizen convicted of fraud against individuals, businesses, or government to deportation, with mandatory detention while removal proceedings occur. The legislation also grants any U.S. court that convicts a naturalized citizen of fraud the automatic authority to revoke their citizenship and cancel their naturalization certificate at the time of sentencing. The bill takes effect immediately upon enactment and applies to fraud cases committed since September 30, 1996, even if the person wasn't previously arrested or charged for that conduct. No specific funding is allocated in the bill, as it primarily creates new legal grounds and procedures within existing immigration court systems.
Take Action
Your position
Add a comment
to comment on this bill.
Annotate the text
Highlight any passage on the Summary or Full Text tab to attach a note. Annotations appear on the Annotations tab.