Luis Ramon Morales-Santana, Respondent
Stephen A. Broome, Counsel of Record
Luis Ramon Morales-Santana was born in the Dominican Republic in 1962 to an unmarried Dominican mother and an American father. In 1975, Morales-Santana moved to the United States as a lawful permanent resident. He was convicted of multiple felonies in 1995 and, five years later, scheduled for deportation. He challenged the ruling, asserting that he was a U.S. citizen because his father was an American. According to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1956, however, his father didn’t qualify to pass his citizenship to his children because he had not lived on U.S. soil for at least 10 years, including…
