A former Minnesota corrections officer has been arrested as part of a federal operation targeting suspected immigration fraud.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that as part of Operation Twin Shield, 45-year-old Morris Brown from Liberia was arrested on Jan. 15 in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for violating immigration law, including overstaying his student visa and making false claims to U.S. citizenship.

USCIS said that Brown entered the U.S. in 2014 on a non-immigrant student visa that was terminated in 2015 because he didn’t enroll in a full course of study. According to federal immigration officials, Brown also joined the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in 2014, despite not having legal status, but went AWOL (absent without official leave) the next year.

He was apprehended and discharged from the military under other-than-honorable conditions in 2022, USCIS said.

Brown reportedly applied for a Green Card in 2020 under the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness program, but USCIS said his application was denied due to misrepresentations, including failure to disclose prior military service and a false claim of U.S. citizenship.

In 2024, he applied to naturalize as a U.S. citizen based on prior military service, federal immigration officials said.

USCIS investigators looking into Brown’s application for citizenship found evidence of marriage fraud and prior instances where he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen in...

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