US federal court in Los Angeles sentenced Samir Ousman Alsheikh to 60 years in prison for conspiracy. 🇸🇾 🇺🇸 What makes this case unusual isn't the sentence length, it's the jurisdictional route that got Alsheikh in front of an American judge at all he wasn't extradited by Syria, handed over through some post Assad transitional justice process, or prosecuted by an international tribunal; he was caught because he lied on a U.S. immigration form and tried to naturalize, and that fraud gave American prosecutors their opening. Criminals have repeatedly tried to disappear into the U.S. immigration system by lying on visa and naturalization paperwork.