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You misunderstand the point of the form. The point is that if later you are suspected of one of those activities, you can be deported because you lied on the fo
by alain94040 10y ago
You misunderstand the point of the form. The point is that if later you are suspected of one of those activities, you can be deported because you lied on the form, even though it might be impossible to convict you for the activity itself.
- tannhauser23 10y agoThis is absolutely correct. Plus, what they did may not be illegal per se, but we might not want them in the country. For example, I'm not aware of any U.S. law that specifically makes it illegal to have been Nazi concentration camp guard. But we don't want people like that in the country and want to deport them if they are ever found here. Hence the purpose of the immigration form.
- mulmen 10y agoUnless they are really good rocket scientists...
- DashRattlesnake 10y agoNazi concentration camp guards weren't building rockets.
- mulmen 10y agoMaybe not guards but that's splitting hairs. Nazi party members with rocketry experience were absolutely granted citizenship. Even von Braun himself used slave labor to build rockets during the war.
- FoeNyx 10y agoNot sure you can call it an immigration form, because it's targeting "nonimmigrant visitor". Moreover the form do not specifically mention concentration camp guards: > "(...) between 1933 and 1945 were involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?" I guess Wernher von Braun, like most of the people included in the "Operation Paperclip"[1] would have fallen in that category in some way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
- CamperBob2 10y agoNote that it's almost impossible to not lie on the form. Even a cold or a hangnail could be classified as a "disorder" under the very first question ("Do you have a communicable disease; physical or mental disorder, or are you a drug abuser or addict?") The poor grammar is vanishingly unlikely to be unintentional, considering how many reprintings these forms must have undergone.
- vidarh 10y agoTravel under the visa waiver program is explicitly on the basis that you have no right to appeal or review any removal action if they believe you've breached the terms so that's entirely unnecessary.