Fraud Accountability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6975 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6975

   To subject aliens convicted of fraud to deportation and to bestow 
 concurrent jurisdiction to revoke the citizenship of any naturalized 
United States citizen convicted of fraud on any court that enters such 
                             a conviction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2026

    Mr. Carter of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Wied, and Mr. Kelly of 
Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To subject aliens convicted of fraud to deportation and to bestow 
 concurrent jurisdiction to revoke the citizenship of any naturalized 
United States citizen convicted of fraud on any court that enters such 
                             a conviction.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fraud Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUDING FRAUD AS A DEPORTABLE OFFENSE.

    Section 237(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(A)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating clause (vi) as clause (vii);
            (2) by inserting after clause (v) the following:
                            ``(vi) Notwithstanding the fraud loss 
                        threshold established in the definition of 
                        aggravated felony under section 101(a)(43)(M), 
                        any alien who is convicted of a crime involving 
                        fraud committed against any private individual, 
                        fund, corporation, or government entity is 
                        deportable.''; and
            (3) in clause (vii), as redesignated, by striking ``and 
        (iv)'' and inserting ``(iv), and (vi)''.

SEC. 3. MANDATORY DETENTION.

    Section 236(c)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1227(c)(1)(B)) is amended by striking ``covered in section 
237(a)(2)(A)(ii), (A)(iii), (B), (C), or (D)'' and inserting 
``described in subparagraph (A)(ii), (A)(iii), (A)(vi), (B), (C), or 
(D) of section 237(a)(2);''.

SEC. 4. DENATURALIZATION FOR FRAUD AND OTHER CRIMINAL OFFENSES.

    Section 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1451) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (f), (g), and (h) as 
        subsections (g), (h), and (i), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
    ``(f)(1) At the time any court in the United States enters a 
conviction of any naturalized United States citizen for a criminal 
offense described in section 237(a)(2), such court shall--
    ``(A) revoke, set aside, and declare void the final order admitting 
such person to citizenship; and
    ``(B) declare the certificate of naturalization of such person to 
be canceled.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding section 1331 of title 28, United States Code, 
any court referred to in paragraph (1) shall have jurisdiction to take 
the actions described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of such paragraph 
with respect to a person described in such paragraph.''.

SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.

    (a) Effective Date.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act 
shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by section 4 shall apply to 
any conduct by any alien constituting fraud that was committed on or 
after September 30, 1996, against any private individual, fund, 
corporation, or government entity for which such alien was not 
arrested, charged, or indicted before the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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