If you were to ask me what was one of the worst “reforms” of the immigration laws in 1996, I would say high on the list is a portion of the “reform” statute passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton that made a non-citizen making a false claim to U.S. citizenship both inadmissible to, INA § 212(a)(6)(C)(ii), and deportable from, INA § 237(a)(3)(D), the United States. What is the scope of this removability ground? Does it…

According to INA § 212(a)(6)(C)(ii)(I), “[a]ny alien” who makes a false claim to United States citizenship “for any purpose or benefit under this [Immigration and Nationality] Act or any Federal or State law is inadmissible.  There is no waiver to this ground of inadmissibility, thus making it a permanent bar to admission to the United States. According to INA § 212(a)(9)(C)(i)(I), “[a]ny alien”  person who has accrued more than a year of unlawful presence, departs, and then comes back, or…