U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided pivotal assistance to the investigation that led to the denaturalization of Carlos Noe Gallegos, a convicted child sex offender. The U.S. attorney’s office made the announcement.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued the order stripping Gallegos, a Mexican national, of his citizenship after he concealed from USCIS during his naturalization process in 2010 the fact that he had sexually assaulted a child. Gallegos failed to disclose both his criminal acts but pleaded guilty to the crime after becoming a U.S. citizen. The court found that Gallegos’s criminal conduct made him ineligible for naturalization and that his citizenship was illegally obtained.
The Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation, Affirmative Litigation Unit, handled the case with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. The case was investigated by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations with the assistance of USCIS.
The original announcement can be found here.
