(Sacramento Bee) A federal immigration judge in Van Nuys ruled Tuesday that Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen lied on his application forms seeking entry to the United States and can be removed from the country, but she said the government had not proven its claims that Ameen participated in terrorist activities.
“The government has met its burden by clear and convincing evidence, which is the proper standard, and the court sustains allegation four that (Ameen) procured his admission by fraud or willfully misrepresented a material fact,” Judge Tara Naselow-Najas found.
The judge found that Amen misrepresented the facts of his father’s death — he claimed his father was killed by terrorists, while the government maintains he died of a heart attack — and also found that Ameen was not truthful when he said he had never interacted with any members of terror groups. The government had said his cousin and other family members had ties to such groups, and the judge said his cousin “was clearly a member” of such a group.
