A view of the lecture before US Attorney General William Barr holds a press conference about the release of the Mueller Report at the Department of Justice April 18, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN Staff Taylor Tinsley and Sophia Flores
1:44 PM – Tuesday, July 21, 2026
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to revoke citizenship from 10 naturalized criminals.
On Monday, the DOJ announced that it had filed actions in various U.S. district courts against 10 individuals accused of serious offense. Those under denaturalization efforts include criminals accused of sexual abuse of a child, health care and wire fraud, immigration fraud and conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.
Their ages range from 44 years-old to 65-years-old. They all are from various countries including Cuba, Mexico, Pakistan and Peru.
45-year-old Yoskmaikel Rodriguez Perez (Cuba) “operated a purported medical clinic and submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare in excess of $886,694.”
60-year-old Ceflo Luviano-Mojica (Mexico) “misrepresented his prior arrest for Carrying a Concealed Firearm and for Grand Theft.” He “made a false statement both on his naturalization application and during his interview, when he testified under oath that he had never been arrested, charged, or imprisoned for breaking or violating any law.”
53-year-old Urbano Vazquez Ortega (Mexico) “sexually assaulted children while employed as a priest in a Washington, D.C. church” between 2015 and 2017. During these years he “touched the breasts, genitalia, and buttocks of his victims and in one instance thrusted his tongue into the mouth of a minor female victim.”
65-year-old Murtaza Ali (Pakistan) “filed multiple applications for immigration benefits under different aliases until he obtained a grant of an immigration benefit under the alias ‘Muhammad Iqbal.’”
51-year-old Jimmy Aguero (Peru) “repeatedly sexually abused his minor stepdaughter prior to naturalizing as a U.S. citizen.” He had been found guilty by a jury on eight counts of sexual abuse of a minor. Aguero was sentenced to 10 years behind bars.
53-year-old Antonio Alcantara-Ruiz (Mexico) “purchased identity documents from a fellow Mexican citizen and used those documents to secure a replacement permanent resident card which contained Alcantara-Ruiz’s picture and fingerprint.” He then “used the false documents in support of his naturalization.”
44-year-old Omar Cantu-Montalvo (Mexico) lied in 2005 in his naturalization application that he “never committed a crime or offense for which he had not been arrested.” However, in April 2026, he “pleaded guilty in federal district court to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine—a conspiracy he joined in April 2005, just a few months before he applied for naturalization.”
59-year-old Francisco Montano (Mexico) failed to divulge in his 1997 application that he had “sexual abused a child during the mandatory five-year good moral character period prior to the naturalization process.”
47-year-old Marcin Stanislaw Garbacz (Poland) “engaged in a scheme to steal approximately $259,696 in cash collections from three parishes” in South Dakota. Additionally, he secretly recorded a 17-year-old showering during a church trip. He has been convicted of multiple federal offenses including “wire fraud, making and subscribing a false tax return, and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place involving a minor.”
60-year-old Martin Garcia Cardie (Mexico) “wrote in his application that he had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested.” “However, in 2022, a petit jury in the State of Utah convicted Mr. Garcia Cardiel of nineteen counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child based on acts the defendant committed in 2007.” The two victims were his neighbors, sisters who were seven and eight years old when the abuse began.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said each of these individuals lacked the good moral character required by law.
“Each of these individuals lacked the good moral character required by law and procured citizenship through willful misrepresentations and concealment of their crimes,” he stated.
He added that the DOJ will continue to aggressively pursue denaturalization and will restore integrity to the process.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, this Department of Justice will continue to aggressively pursue denaturalization to restore integrity to America’s naturalization process,” Blanche continued.
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