MAY 3, 2023RALEIGH, NCENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL, DOCUMENT AND BENEFIT FRAUD, CHILD EXPLOITATION
Federal judge sentences naturalized citizen for lying to obtain US citizenship
RALEIGH, N.C. — U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Cruz Miguel Aguina, 40, to eight months in prison following a guilty plea to immigration fraud. Aguina was also judicially denaturalized as a U.S. citizen.
According to court records, on July 3, 2019, Aguina fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship by making materially false statements under oath regarding his naturalization application. Aguina answered no in response to the question “Were you ever involved in … forcing, or trying to force, someone to have any kind of sexual contact or relations?” He also answered no in response to the question “Have you ever committed, assisted in committing, or attempted to commit, a crime or offense for which you were not arrested?”
However, on June 16, 2022, in the Superior Court of North Carolina in Johnston County, Aguina was convicted of statutory rape of a child. The judge sentenced him to between 240 and 348 months’ imprisonment and ordered him to register as a sex offender.
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