Senator Moody urges passage of SCAM Act after terrorist attacks by naturalized citizens
Press release from the Office of U.S. Senator Ashley Moody
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following recent terrorist attacks carried out by naturalized citizens, Senator Ashley Moody is calling for the passage of the SCAM Act — a bill she is co-sponsoring. The SCAM Act, or Stopping Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation Act, would increase safety and protect the integrity of American citizenship by ensuring individuals who join terrorist organizations or are naturalized through fraud or deception can have their citizenship revoked.
Senator Ashley Moody said, “Recent terrorist attacks carried out by naturalized citizens expose dangerous gaps in our system. Terrorists are exploiting our naturalization process to remain in the United States while plotting violence against Americans. Congress must act now to close these loopholes and protect our communities by passing the SCAM Act.”
Yesterday, a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire in an Old Dominion University classroom, killing a professor and injuring two others. The attack is being investigated as an act of terror. The shooter was previously convicted of and served prison time for providing information to ISIS, a terror organization, and was released and not de-naturalized during the Biden administration. In a separate event yesterday, a naturalized Lebanese-born citizen rammed a vehicle into a Jewish synagogue in Michigan.
Last week, a naturalized citizen opened fire in Austin, Texas, killing two and wounding 14 at a bar, wearing a “Property of Allah” shirt. Following these potential terrorist attacks and the massive welfare fraud scheme uncovered in Minnesota by naturalized citizens, concerns are raised regarding gaps in the system used to vet applicants into this country.
The SCAM Act also follows the exposure of the $250 million Feeding Our Future welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota — one of the largest pandemic fraud cases in U.S. history. Several individuals convicted in the scheme were U.S. citizens through the naturalization process.
Under current law, the Supreme Court has held that citizenship can be revoked when it was unlawfully obtained through concealment or misrepresentation of material facts.
Applicants for citizenship must demonstrate good moral character, support for the principles of the Constitution, and a commitment to the good order of the United States.
When individuals commit major crimes shortly after becoming citizens — such as large-scale government fraud, affiliating with foreign terrorist organizations, aggravated felonies, or espionage — it raises serious questions about whether those requirements were ever met.
The SCAM Act clarifies the types of evidence the government may use to revoke citizenship obtained through fraud, including when an individual is within 10 years of naturalization:
- Commits a major fraud against federal, state, or local government programs
- Affiliates with a designated foreign terrorist organization
- Commits an aggravated felony or espionage offense
The bill also ensures that individuals who lose citizenship through this process can be quickly deported.
Yes, please. Yesterday.
These “naturalized” citizens need to be de-naturalized and deported. We need to make it MUCH harder and MUCH more expensive to be a citizen. NO MORE freebies for immigrants. Deport ALL illegal aliens permanently. NO more government jobs for ANY immigrant.
These radically insane terrorists need to be rounded up put on the flying carpet ride home without a pilot. This is Biden’s and the unicorn party of liptards fault that these idiots are here. Thank God the ROTC student took the terrorist out. But now the dems are going to have the knives they are killing the misunderstood terrorists. These recent events are the hard line reason we have the 2nd Ammendment. People need to stand up to today to these terrorists and make them understand the phrase FAFO.
The shooter was a naturalized citizen who spent 6 years as a member of the Virginia National Gurad, beginning in 2009. This has nothing to do with Biden obviously but probably something to do with bombing the F out of the mid-east, including a girls school, killing 140 of them. You thought there’d be no push back?
We have immigration Laws in Place, the issue was that No One was Enforcing Them. Adding more Law never solved a Thing, delegating 85% of Police to Traffic Enforcement of Another Tax by Police, that is mostly for Revenue and Not Our Safety and then the Wizards of Moral Valor dedicate 15% of all police to Real Crime, but No One Knows Why its like it is
Can you address staff shortages to track these individuals due to political firings of FBI agents?
It’s good politics to blame immigrants for everything but violent extremism and mental health problems in our gun culture society is a threat as well as evidenced below in a recent podcast.
“Could you tell us a little bit about where this term nihilistic violent extremism is coming from and how the FBI came up with it?
The term nihilistic violent extremism first appeared in court documents about a year ago, March 2025, with regards to a case involving an individual by the name of Nikita Kasap, who had murdered his parents and kind of embarked on a spree with the end goal of killing President Trump to start a race war. The language that the FBI uses, the definition they’ve used is that NVEs are individuals who engage in criminal conduct within the United States and abroad in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability”
“you look at this evolution of the term, I would think of it like the FBI Director, Cash Patel talked about some 100 active investigations a year ago.
I think they’re at 425 as of last week, and I think next week it’ll be 550. There’s a two-fold thing happening at the same time. One is a increase or a rise of largely online groups that are nihilistic in nature in terms of just want to watch the world burn and cause as much chaos as humanly possible, and also a hesitation of still using the term domestic terrorism in this new administration.
So you mix those all together and you see a rise in cases. This is not to say the numbers are clearly going up, and there’s cases going up and there are heinous cases of it, but it’s also just somewhat a reflection of a new administration working their way through new terminology and things like that, and also a bureau that’s just trying to understand how to wrap their head around what the hell is going on on this. It is confusing, understandably so, to look at a case of a 15-year-old kid[…]”
From The Lawfare Podcast: Lawfare Daily: “I’m angry that I exist”: Nihilistic Violent Extremism with Seamus Hughes and Jacob Ware, Mar 10, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id498897343?i=1000754429906&r=186
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There is no political firing of FBI agents. These agents choose politics over the law. They manufactured evidence and lied to get warrants, wiretapping, and charges. I would expect that any law enforcement agency should be held accountable when they do this.
You say this based on your personnel knowledge that Trump would never fire experts on Iranian terrorism who worked on his indictments? Please, tell us more.
Cut the grandstanding and deal with your cult hero and party. They/you did this:
“the F.B.I. — especially among agents and prosecutors who handle national security and terrorism cases. After a year of constant firings, resignations and other disruptive distractions, elite counterterrorism and counterintelligence units have been stretched thin and left short-handed, current and former officials say.
There is widespread concern about the capacity of these units to deal with threats unleashed by Iran in particular, an adversary known for its willingness to combine espionage, cyberwarfare and attacks in the real world in bringing the fight overseas.
A succession of hardball personnel and policy directives, often at the command of the Trump White House, has led to an exodus of experienced investigators and prosecutors, according to current and former officials. ….
Last week, the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, fired about a dozen members of an elite counterintelligence unit based in Washington whose agents and analysts specialized in stemming threats of terrorism in the Middle East. The reason for their termination: They had also been involved in the investigation into Mr. Trump’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, after he left office in 2021.
Some of those let go included agents who worked on efforts to stem Iran’s ability to operate stealthily in the United States, according to officials familiar with the situation. At least one was part of an interagency task force based in McLean, Va., known as the Iran Threat Mission Center. Some of the agents were thrown out so quickly, according to one person familiar with their work, that they were unable to hand off their most sensitive and knowledgeable sources to their successors….
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/us/politics/trump-iran-war-doj-dhs-firings.html