It\u2019s no secret that U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> isn\u2019t the biggest fan of Prince Harry<\/a>, but could the change in presidential power lead to the prince\u2019s deportation from the United States?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025<\/a>, the presidency blueprint that Trump has been heavily mirroring<\/a> in the early weeks of his second term, has been pushing to know more about the prince\u2019s immigration status and records ever since the royal admitted to using drugs in the past in his memoir, Spare<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The think tank wants Harry\u2019s immigration paperwork released, arguing there\u2019s a possibility the Duke of Sussex lied on his forms about his past drug use or received special treatment from Joe Biden\u2019s administration to enter the U.S. They want to know so badly, in fact, that they sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after it rejected the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Freedom of Information Act request to release Harry\u2019s record.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The prince is not a party in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n In September of last year the case was seemingly closed when a judge ruled that the application would remain private, citing a \u201clegitimate privacy interest in his immigration status.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, however, a federal judge is considering next steps in the case, and at a hearing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols focused largely on how to handle a trio of sworn statements from DHS officials on why the agency was fighting the records request.<\/p>\n Those statements have not been seen by the Heritage legal team, and Nichols is considering whether to release part or all of those declarations to the Heritage Foundation. The judge \u2014 who has been shown some, but not all, of Harry\u2019s immigration records \u2014 said he\u2019s also considering whether to request more records from the government and whether to call in an outside expert as a consultant.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The Heritage Foundation has argued that releasing the paperwork is \u201cof immense public interest,\u201d pointing to Harry\u2019s revelations in Spare<\/em>, where he detailed past recreational use of cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms.<\/p>\n Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Application forms for U.S. visas specifically ask about current and past drug use and admitting this can lead to applications being rejected.<\/p>\n And while U.S. immigration offers make their final decisions on admissibility on a number of factors, the think tank argues that admitting past drug use \u201cgenerally renders such a person inadmissible for entry.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf he lied, that gets you deported,\u201d Heritage\u2019s lawyer Samuel Dewey told reporters after Wednesday\u2019s hearing. \u201cPeople are routinely deported for lying on immigration forms.\u201d<\/p>\n Dewey said it\u2019s also possible that Harry was truthful about his prior drug use on his application, and received either an internal DHS waiver or some sort of diplomatic visa from the State Department. Both options are legal but would leave the government and Harry open to accusations of special treatment.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Nichols said he\u2019s seeking to strike a balance between revealing too much information in the DHS statements and redacting them to the point of meaninglessness.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a point where redactions would leave just a name or a date,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In the past, Trump has had choice words for the prince and his wife, Meghan Markle, going back to 2016 when Markle branded the then-new president a \u201cmisogynist\u201d and \u201cdivisive\u201d<\/a> during an interview with Larry Wilmore. The interview took place two months before Markle met her future husband and long before she married into the Royal Family.<\/p>\n
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