Deportation is the word and action an immigrant does not want to hear. That is why today we remind you of the fact or mistake you are committing that could make you the target of such a serious measure in the United States.

The first mistake that leads to possible deportation is lying or ‘intentionally’ omitting information in an immigration proceeding, attorney Jaime Barrón, an expert on immigration issues, tells Univision. From his experience he can say that it is a ‘fairly common mistake’.

don’t be honest with your legal representative and deliberately try to conceal decisive information” is delicate. Barrón points out that “providing falsified information to obtain benefits such as asylum, for example, is a serious crime.”

“If you have a criminal record or have committed a crime that could get you deported and you hide it, “not only will they deny you the process, but you will also receive a deportation order from the United States,” Barrón said.

Failure to appear when required by law is another mistake. Alex Gálvez, also a lawyer, explains to Univisión that “not being present at the court appointment immigration. The court will automatically issue a deportation order in absentia.”

The only way to reverse the deportation – Gálvez believes – “is to demonstrate to the court that an error was made in the issuance of the Notice of Appearance (NTA), such as that it was sent to the wrong address and /or that the address is not correct from the court, and for a reason of illness justified by a medical report.”

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Gálvez adds to the list of mistakes that you should avoid non-compliance with voluntary departure, which, when the conditions for leaving the United States are violated, becomes a final deportation order.

You may be notified of a lifetime deportation and this requires the person to have “returned to the United States undocumented after deportation.” fine.” , imprisonment and sometimes deportation for life,” says the news channel in consultation with this lawyer who works in California.

Other mistakes

Univisión remembers three more:

DHS deportation priorities

According to the lawyers, dedicated to immigration issues, they told Univision that “another common mistake is not knowing the deportation priorities of the Joe Biden administration.”

There are three and the Supreme Court has confirmed them, the media say.

•Priority 1. National security. A national security agent may assume that a non-citizen will receive priority for deportation if he or she has participated or is suspected of participating in terrorist acts or is associated with terrorist activities; he or she has engaged in or is suspected of espionage activities or is related thereto; or your arrest, arrest, or detention is necessary to protect the national security of the United States.

•Priority 2. Border security. A national security agent may consider a noncitizen to be a deportation priority if he or she was detained at the border or at a port of entry while attempting to illegally enter the United States on or after November 1, 2020; or he or she was not physically present in the United States before November 1, 2020.

•Priority 3. Public safety. A national security agent may assume that a noncitizen has priority for deportation if he or she poses a threat to public safety and he or she has been convicted of a crime as defined in section 101(a)(43) of the INA. or have been convicted of a crime involving active participation in a criminal street gang, as defined in 18 USC § 521(a), and who is not younger than 16 years of age and has intentionally participated in an organized crime gang or transnational criminal organization in order to the illegal activities of the gang or transnational criminal organization.

Citizenship fraud in the United States

At this point on the USCIS site they explain that in accordance with the previous decision of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in the 2019 Zhang (Matter of Zhang) case:

False statements about U.S. citizenship do not have to be knowingly made in order for an alien to be deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

The Policy Manual also applies the BIA (Board of Immigration Appeals) decision to the false claim of inadmissibility of U.S. citizenship as it is virtually identical to the ground of deportability.

Under the law, an alien is inadmissible or deportable if the alien falsely represents himself or herself as a citizen of the United States for any purpose or benefit under immigration law or under other federal or state law.

The only exception that Congress has established on the ground of inadmissibility for false declarations of U.S. citizenship requires that each parent of the alien be or would have been a U.S. citizen if the alien was permanently resident in the United States before the age of 16. United States, and the foreigner reasonably believed that he was a United States citizen when he claimed that he was.

(JO)