I 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6975 
To subject aliens convicted of fraud to deportation and to bestow concurrent 
jurisdiction to revoke the citizenship of any naturalized United States 
citizen convicted of fraud on any court that enters such a conviction. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 8, 2026 
Mr. CARTER of Georgia (for himself, Mr. WIED, and Mr. KELLY of Pennsyl-
vania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To subject aliens convicted of fraud to deportation and to 
bestow concurrent jurisdiction to revoke the citizenship 
of any naturalized United States citizen convicted of 
fraud on any court that enters such a conviction. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fraud Accountability 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INCLUDING FRAUD AS A DEPORTABLE OFFENSE. 
Section 237(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(A)) is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating clause (vi) as clause (vii); 
(2) by inserting after clause (v) the following: 
‘‘(vi) Notwithstanding the fraud loss 
threshold established in the definition of 
aggravated 
felony 
under 
section 
101(a)(43)(M), any alien who is convicted 
of a crime involving fraud committed 
against any private individual, fund, cor-
poration, or government entity is deport-
able.’’; and 
(3) in clause (vii), as redesignated, by striking 
‘‘and (iv)’’ and inserting ‘‘(iv), and (vi)’’. 
SEC. 3. MANDATORY DETENTION. 
Section 236(c)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(c)(1)(B)) is amended by striking 
‘‘covered in section 237(a)(2)(A)(ii), (A)(iii), (B), (C), or 
(D)’’ and inserting ‘‘described in subparagraph (A)(ii), 
(A)(iii), (A)(vi), (B), (C), or (D) of section 237(a)(2);’’. 
SEC. 4. DENATURALIZATION FOR FRAUD AND OTHER 
CRIMINAL OFFENSES. 
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 
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(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f)(1) At the time any court in the United States 
enters a conviction of any naturalized United States cit-
izen for a criminal offense described in section 237(a)(2), 
such court shall— 
‘‘(A) revoke, set aside, and declare void the final 
order admitting such person to citizenship; and 
‘‘(B) declare the certificate of naturalization of such 
person to be canceled. 
‘‘(2) Notwithstanding section 1331 of title 28, United 
States Code, any court referred to in paragraph (1) shall 
have jurisdiction to take the actions described in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) of such paragraph with respect to a 
person described in such paragraph.’’. 
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY. 
(a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act and the amend-
ments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sec-
tion 4 shall apply to any conduct by any alien constituting 
fraud that was committed on or after September 30, 1996, 
against any private individual, fund, corporation, or gov-
ernment entity for which such alien was not arrested, 
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charged, or indicted before the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
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