American Citizenship: Maximum Prison Sentence

maximum prison sentence: In an American court Monday, the 55-year-old will be sentenced to up to a decade in prison for lying on his U.S. citizenship papers about his alleged role in the slayings, according to Huffington Post. The government is pursuing the sentence in light of "the horrific nature of the human rights offences that defendant concealed in order to obtain naturalization," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing brief and Calif. - Former Guatemalan soldier Jorge Sosa was a member of a special force suspected of killing at least 160 people in a remote village more than three decades ago. Federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum prison sentence for the former second lieutenant for failing to disclose his alleged participation in the murders in the Guatemalan hamlet of Dos Erres when he applied to naturalize and are asking a judge strip him of his American citizenship. Sosa's lawyer says his client's lies did not harm anyone, so he should serve no more than a year in prison. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.