Sebastian Gorka Could Face Immigration Probe Over ‘Membership’ In Nazi-Allied Group

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A prominent retired immigration judge and ex-Nazi hunter says Sebastian Gorka could face a serious probe over his purported membership in a far right wing Hungarian group that was allied with the Nazis.

Bruce Einhorn, a professor of immigration and nationality law at Pepperdine University, said if the top White House terrorism aide was a sworn member of the Vitézi Rend group, he should have disclosed that fact when applying to become a naturalized American citizen.

“This is a group that advocates racialist nativism,” said Einhorn. If Gorka did not disclose his affiliation with it, he said, this would constitute “failure to disclose a material fact,” which could undermine the validity of his claim to citizenship.

“(It) would have provoked a significant inquiry,” he said.

The Forward revealed exclusively that Vitézi Rend leaders say Gorka is a sworn member.

Einhorn was deputy chief at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. The unit was charged with finding and deporting Nazis and members of other extremist groups like the Vitézi Rend who entered America illegally by hiding their backgrounds.

He noted that individuals who apply for both visas and citizenship are specifically asked to name all organizations they belong to. There is no statute of limitations for violations.

http://forward.com/fast-forward/366218/sebastian-gorka-could-face-immigration-probe-over-membership-in-nazi-allied/


  I give up.

[Sanguine]

Ummm, maybe, maybe not:

The Hungarian word Vitéz is of medieval Slavic origin and means "valiant", "gallant soldier" or "knight". The "Vitézi Rend" (Order of the Valiant) should not be confused with the 17th-century Vitézlő Rend (Fighting Estate), which refers to a rebellion of former peasants and craftsmen whose homes had been destroyed by the Turks. These men took up arms and formed an estate within society that received charters, rights and privileges over the centuries, mainly from the princes of Transylvania,[3] but which were eventually recognised by the Habsburg kings of Hungary.
The Order of Vitéz as a State Order

Following the peace Treaty of Trianon,[4] which banished the ruling Habsburg house from Hungary, a constitutional assembly decided to return to the monarchical form of government and replace the incumbent Hapsburg regent, Archduke Joseph August von Habsburg of Austria, with Vice-Admiral Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya. It was mainly his idea to help re-build the shattered country by giving land to soldiers who had proven themselves on the battlefield. This way, the poverty brought on by World War I could begin to be alleviated and soldiers could be rewarded.......

....The majority of the real estate owned by Jews that were deported after the German occupation of Hungary went to organizations supportive of the collaborationist regime, including the Order of Vitéz and its members.[8][9][10] Along with the Arrow Cross Party and other contemporaneous Hungarian organizations, the US State Department lists the Order of Vitéz as a Nazi-linked group.[11]

Hungarian expert of the Order of Vitéz, historian Róbert Kerepeszki has stressed that there were ruptures in the organization of the Order of Vitéz on the question of Nazism during the war, many of them died fighting against Hungarian Nazis.[12]

Under the Armistice signed between the Allies and the Nazi collaborationist Government of National Unity, the Government undertook "to dissolve immediately all pro-Hitler or other fascist political, military, pare-military and other organizations on Hungarian territory conducting propaganda hostile to the United Nations and not to tolerate the existence of such organizations in future."[13] The Order's governing National Council of Vitéz was placed listed as such an organization by Prime Ministerial Edict no. 1945/529.[14] Paragraph 1, §(1) of the Statute IV of 1947 regarding the abolition of certain titles and ranks declares annulment of the Hungarian aristocratic and noble ranks, and paragraph 3 §(1) specifically forbids the use of the "vitéz" title...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Vit%C3%A9z

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Wikipedia:

The Order of Vitéz was abolished in the years of 1947-1948.[53] Gorka's father, Paul Gorka, was never a member of this Order and received a "Vitéz" medal from Hungarian exiles "for his resistance to dictatorship" in 1979.[54] Gorka himself stated that he wears this medal in remembrance of his father, who was awarded the decoration for his efforts to create an anti-Communist, pro-democracy organization at the university he attended in Hungary. Sebastian Gorka recounted that his father lived through the German occupation of Budapest and the siege of Budapest as a child, and was tortured under the Communist regime that emerged in Hungary after the war.[55][56] Robert Kerepeszki, Hungarian expert of the Order of Vitéz, has confirmed that there were ruptures in the organization of the Order of Vitéz on the question of Nazism during the war, many of them died fighting against Hungarian Nazis, and Gorka's medal had nothing to do with the war period, but was awarded "for his resistance to dictatorship."[57][51][58] The "tunic" that Gorka wore was only the traditional Hungarian jacket, known as a bocskai.[51][58][note 1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka

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Oh, I know. Anyone who's listened to Gorka for more than about 10 minutes knows! He's damned proud of his father (rightly so, in my book) and tells the story every chance he gets!

Just - taking that justifiable pride and applying tinfoil? I really do give up on these "people."