The Justice Department has initiated action to deport a 59-year-old alleged Nazi collaborator who was stripped of U.S. citizenship by a federal court last March for participating in the murder of a Jewish family and killing a young Jewish child in the Ukraine in 1943.
Bohdon Kozy, a native of the Ukraine and now a resident of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is accused of concealing his activities on behalf of the Nazis during World War II as a policeman in the Ukraine. The Department said in papers filed in a U.S.immigration court in Miami last Thursday that “Koziy’s acts of persecution and murder and his concealment made his admission into the United States unlawful” and should therefore be deported. The court revoked his citizenship following a three week trial last March.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Detroit ordered the deportation of Archbishop Valerian Trifa, head of the Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate in America, after Trifa acknowledged he was a leader of the Rumanian fascist Iran Guard during World War II and had lied about that association when he applied for admission to the U.S. Trifa has 60 days from the October 7 order to find a country that will accept him.
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