Decision deferred on deportation of 'Nazi camp guard'
The US chief immigration judge said he expected to issue a ruling in 30 days about what to do about an Ohio man who was stripped of his citizenship based on a Justice Department case that he was a Nazi concentration camp guard during the Second World War.
A lawyer representing John Demjanjuk said returning his client to his native Ukraine would be like throwing him in a “shark tank”.
But the Justice Department said Demjanjuk has not shown he would be mistreated and that the Eastern European nation had made progress on human rights since it emerged from the control of the Soviet Union.
Chief US immigration judge Michael Creppy held a hearing yesterday to determine whether his order last June saying Demjanjuk could be removed from the country should be deferred.
Demjanjuk declined an opportunity to speak during the hearing and was quickly taken out of Cleveland’s federal court building without commenting afterward.
Demjanjuk was cleared in 1993 in Israel of being Ivan the Terrible, a sadistic guard at the Treblinka concentration camp.
