A U.S. federal panel ordered a former Nazi guard deported to Germany. Last Friday, the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld the deportation of Johann Leprich, 78, who federal officials claim served as an armed guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Germany during World War II.
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