{"id":275952,"date":"2026-06-09T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/275952\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:07:11","slug":"minnesota-man-originally-from-somalia-is-one-of-17-trump-administration-targets-for-denaturalization-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/275952\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota man originally from Somalia is one of 17 Trump administration targets for denaturalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cbsnews.jpg\" alt=\"CBS News Logo\" class=\"source-logo-inline\"\/><br \/>By Aki Nace<br \/>Tuesday June 9, 2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780983425gettyimages-2232195967.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota man originally from Somalia is one of 17 Trump administration targets for denaturalization\" width=\"660\" height=\"343\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 54-year-old Minnesota immigrant from Somalia is one of 17 people the Trump administration is targeting in its latest denaturalization campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota filed a civil denaturalization complaint against Abdikadir Kadiye on Wednesday. He faces several counts, including illegal procurement of naturalization and procurement of naturalization by concealment of a material fact.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 1997, Kadiye tried to enter the United States by filing two separate identities, the U.S. Department of Justice says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He initially said his name was Liban M. Degel, claiming he was married with no children, but after an immigration judge denied his application, he submitted a second application in 1998 under the name Kadiye, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Department officials said Kadiye told a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent that he had previously used two identities during his admission process.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law allows the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud to obtain their citizenship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the historically complex process has rarely been implemented; between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, according to historical data. Last month, officials announced a dozen denaturalization cases.<\/p>\n<p>The other 16 people targeted by the justice department on Monday are accused of a range of crimes from sex abuse of a minor and distributing drugs to committing immigration fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Aki NaceTuesday June 9, 2026 A 54-year-old Minnesota immigrant from Somalia is one of 17 people the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51],"tags":[103492,12013,76783,6031,6635,5406,4851,3522,6033,22046,139396,1984,12285,4403],"class_list":["post-275952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-103492","tag-administration","tag-denaturalization","tag-for","tag-from","tag-is","tag-man","tag-minnesota","tag-of","tag-one","tag-originally","tag-somalia","tag-targets","tag-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116721487070976721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}