Immigration consequences for fraud conviction

(a) Reentry bar Section 212(a)(10) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(10)) is amended by adding at the end the following: (F) Former naturalized citizens who were removed due to a conviction for welfare fraud Any alien who has been denaturalized under section 340(f) and seeks readmission to the United States within 20 years of the date of such denaturalization is inadmissible.. (b) Deportability 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); and (2) by inserting after clause (v) the following: (vi) Fraud Any alien who is convicted of an offense prohibited under chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code, or of any offense involving fraud by any court in the United States is deportable.. (c) Expedited removal Section 238 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1228) is amended— (1) by striking the section header and inserting the following: Expedited removal of any noncitizen convicted of an aggravated felony or any offense involving fraud.; and (2) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking any criminal offense covered in section 241(a)(2)(A)(iii), (B), (C), or (D), or any offense covered by section 241(a)(2)(A)(ii) for which both predicate offenses are, without regard to the date of their commission, otherwise covered by section 241(a)(2)(A)(i) and inserting any criminal offense described in subparagraph (A)(iii), (A)(vi), (B), (C), or (D), of section 237(a)(2), or any offense described in section 237(a)(2)(A)(ii) for which both predicate offenses are, without regard to the date on which they were committed, otherwise described in section 237(a)(2)(A)(i); (B) in paragraph (2)— (i) by inserting or an offense described in section 237(a)(2)(A)(vi) after an aggravated felony; and (ii) by striking felon and inserting alien; and (C) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking an aggravated felony before the alien's release from incarceration for the underlying aggravated felony and inserting an aggravated felony or an offense described in section 237(a)(2)(A)(vi) before the alien's release from incarceration for the underlying crime. (d) Denaturalization for welfare fraud 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) Welfare fraud If a person who has been naturalized under this chapter is convicted of defrauding the United States Government of a Federal public benefit (as defined in section 401 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1611(c))) or defrauding a State or local government of a State or local public benefit (as defined in section 411(c) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1621(c))), and any act or acts leading to such conviction or admission began or occurred after the date of his or her naturalization, the court in which such conviction occurs shall immediately— (1) revoke, set aside, and declare void the final order admitting such person to citizenship; and (2) declare certificate of naturalization of such person to be canceled..