• 2018 is when he naturalized. Afterwards, he is immune from deportations for almost any crime (that is, assuming that the administration is obeying the laws and not just try deport citizens unconstitutionally), except for like terrorism or “communist activity” for the first 5 years of naturalization, then after that, they could only denatualize for treason stuff. Specifically, only crimes after the oath ceremony are immune from being considered for denaturalization, meaning, they can use anything they find about criminal activity that happened before the oath happened. They do not need to go through the criminal system, denaturalization happens in the civil court system.

    Say, they find a CCTV footage of him smoking weed an hour before he took the oath, he would still not be immune, as citizenship is conferred after the oath is taken.

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      5 months ago

      Oh okay, I misunderstood, I had assumed 2018 was when New York legalized marijuana or something. I didn’t know retroactive denaturalization worked like that. Thank you for helping to inform :)