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The Denver Post: Trump administration says Colorado immigrants in cannabis industry not showing good moral character - Novo Legal

Written by Aaron Elinoff | Apr 22, 2019 10:14:50 PM

Several weeks after Denver’s mayor said immigrants here were denied American citizenship because of their work in the cannabis industry, President Donald Trump’s administration issued a formal policy making clear that is occurring and will continue to occur.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a one-page policy Friday stating that “violation of federal controlled substance law, including for marijuana, remains a conditional bar to establishing good moral character for naturalization, even where that conduct would not be an offense under state law.”

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/22/trump-marijuana-denver-immigration-gardner/