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...case of Feodor Fedorenko [Oct. 27], the Ukrainian-born immigrant now accused of being a Nazi criminal: I cannot comprehend why the Justice Department is seeking the revocation of his citizenship when more than 78,000 Cubans have immigrated to America and we have become responsible for their welfare...
...Fedorenko has been a good citizen. At 73, after working here for 31 years, he now seeks only a peaceful life...
Last week Fedorenko's case was before the Supreme Court, and the outcome will determine much more than where an aging widower lives out his final years. The law says that citizenship can be revoked if the immigrant concealed a "material fact" when he applied for it. This provision has become the linchpin of the Justice Department's three-year effort to deport suspected war criminals believed to be in this country...
...Government maintains that a fact is material if its revelation would have triggered an inquiry that "might" have turned up facts barring citizenship-participation in atrocities, for example. That is not enough, insists Fedorenko's lawyer, Brian Gildea of New Haven, Conn. The Government has to show that such an investigation definitely "would" have led to the discovery of damning facts. Says Allan Ryan, head of the Justice Department's special unit for tracking down former war criminals: "That's no different from saying we have to prove the atrocities from scratch right in the courtroom...
...that an immigrant was, say, a camp guard and that he later concealed that fact means locating survivors of the camp and hoping they can identify that person after 35 or 40 years have passed. The Justice Department had to go to Israel to find the six witnesses against Fedorenko, and the Philadelphia trial of another suspected war criminal is taking place in part because department lawyers located and video-taped nine Soviet witnesses in the Ukraine...