News Week
A judge ruled Tuesday that an Iraqi refugee accused of killing for the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) is eligible for deportation because he lied on his application when entering the U.S., the Associated Press reported.
The Iraqi government and the U.S. Department of Homeland Securityallege that Omar Abdulsattar Ameen was part of an ISIS group that killed Police Officer Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim in the town of Rawah in 2014 and kept his membership in two terrorist groups a secret before gaining refugee status and resettling in Sacramento, California.
AP reported that Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Tara Naselow-Nahas rejected the allegations but still ruled that he lied when filling out his refugee application because he did not disclose that he interacted with a cousin “who is clearly a member of an armed terrorist group…
