Exclusive | Trump admin fast-tracks deportations of fraudsters and pervy priests in largest denaturalization effort ever
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is ramping up an effort to deport criminal illegal aliens and will be announcing denaturalization actions against 10 of them on Monday — including a fraudster who bilked taxpayers out of nearly $1 million in Medicare funding, The Post has learned.The Department of Justice filed actions in the past 30 days against naturalized US citizens from Mexico, Cuba, Pakistan, Peru and Poland who were convicted of health care fraud, wire fraud, immigration fraud, child sex abuse and drug trafficking.The move is part of what administration officials have dubbed the “largest denaturalization effort ever” and includes one of the first attempts to remove a health care fraudster from the US.“These ten criminal aliens — including child sex abusers, a $900,000 Medicare fraudster, and a cocaine trafficker — lied their way into U.S.citizenship,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in a statement.“When you commit fraud during the naturalization process, you forfeit the right to keep your U.S.
citizenship,” added Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “These criminal aliens, comprised of drug traffickers, pedophiles, and fraudsters, lost that right and exploited our immigration system—harming real U.S.citizens.
DHS is committed to ensuring we denaturalize and remove these fraudsters with every tool at our disposal.”Yoskmaikel Rodriguez Perez was convicted in January 2020 of running a fake medical center in Miami that fraudulently billed Medicare more than $886,694 for “unnecessary prescriptions to HHAs [Home Health Agencies], pharmacies, and patient recruiters,” according to a July 18 filing.The 45-year-old Cuban native had become a naturalized US citizen in 2018.Two former Catholic priests — Urbano Vazquez Ortega and Martin Stanislaw Garbacz — also had actions submitted against them after being convicted of child sex crimes.Ortega is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for second-degree ...