CALIFORNIA
A federal judge revoked the naturalized U.S. citizenship of a fraudster and immigration-officer 
impersonator and stopped her from claiming any citizenship rights, according to officials.
Judge R. Gary Klausner this week of the U.S. District Court ordered the U.S. citizenship of Araceli Martinez, officials stated.
“The Justice Department is committed to preserving the integrity of our nation’s immigration system and the propriety of the government’s adjudication of immigration benefits,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “We will aggressively pursue the denaturalization of individuals who lie on their naturalization applications, especially in a circumstance like this one, which involved an alien who masqueraded as an immigration officer and was convicted of defrauding nine aliens of thousands of dollars in exchange for false promises of facilitating immigration benefits.”
Adding, “We will aggressively pursue the denaturalization of individuals who lie on their naturalization applications, especially in a circumstance like this one, which involved an alien who masqueraded as an immigration officer and was convicted of defrauding nine aliens of thousands of dollars in exchange for false promises of facilitating immigration benefits.”
Martinez aka Maria Araceli Ramos de Martinez, 53, a native of Mexico, plead guilty in September 2012 to Obtaining Money, Labor or Property by False Pretense in violation of California state law.
Between June 2011 and March 2012, Martinez engaged in a scheme in which she impersonated a U.S. immigration officer. Martinez falsely represented that undocumented immigrants could hire her to assist them in obtaining legal status, defrauding her victims of thousands of dollars without ever submitting any paperwork on their behalf, according to officials.
Martinez applied to naturalize and become a U.S. citizen in the midst of engaging in her fraudulent scheme.
While under oath during her naturalization interview, Martinez stated that she had never committed a crime or offense for which she was not arrested, officials said.
Relying on this answer, USCIS granted her naturalization application and Martinez became a U.S. citizen later that year.
When the Department of Justice filed a complaint in federal court to initiate denaturalization proceedings in April 2017, officials said Martinez was incarcerated in the Mendocino County jail in Ukiah, California, serving a two-year sentence for a December 2015 conviction for felony grand theft.