DHS operation nets Minnesota prison guard who allegedly claimed US citizenship to join military

A Liberian antheral successful Minnesota who tried "every instrumentality successful the book" to stay successful the United States worked arsenic a corrections serviceman and was erstwhile AWOL from the Pennsylvania National Guard erstwhile helium was detained successful January, authorities said Wednesday. 

Morris Brown, 45, was arrested Jan. 15 for aggregate migration violations, including overstaying his pupil visa and falsely claiming to beryllium a U.S. citizen, the Department of Homeland Security said. 

He was identified during Operation Twin Shield, a Trump medication inaugural targeting suspected migration fraudsters.

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"Operation Twin Shield continues to present results arsenic the Department of Homeland Security relentlessly pursues those who question to cheat our migration system," said U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow. 

"This alien tried each instrumentality successful the publication to stay successful the United States aft losing ineligible status," helium added. "We volition usage each instrumentality astatine our disposal to guarantee helium faces justness for his galore violations of the law."

While masquerading arsenic a U.S. citizen, Brown worked for the Minnesota Department of Corrections arsenic a situation defender astatine the clip of his arrest, DHS said.  

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Morris Brown, 45, was arrested Jan. 15 for aggregate migration violations, including overstaying his pupil visa and falsely claiming to beryllium a U.S. citizen, the Department of Homeland Security said.  (Getty Images)

Investigators began looking astatine Brown's citizenship exertion and recovered grounds of matrimony fraud and anterior instances wherever helium falsely claimed to beryllium a U.S. national successful authoritative documents, DHS said. 

They besides recovered that helium was moving for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, contempt not being an American citizen. 

Brown entered the U.S. successful 2014 connected a non-immigrant pupil visa that was terminated successful 2015 due to the fact that helium failed to enroll successful a afloat people of study. Despite having nary ineligible status, helium enlisted successful the Pennsylvania National Guard. 

He went AWOL the adjacent twelvemonth and was caught and fixed an different than honorable discharge successful 2022. 

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In 2020, helium applied for a Green Card nether the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness program. On his application, Brown failed to disclose his anterior subject work and his mendacious assertion to U.S. citizenship. In 2024, successful different committee of fraud, helium applied to naturalize arsenic a U.S. national based connected anterior subject service, authorities said. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Minnesota Department of Corrections.