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Facts:
Issue: Whether or not fear of foreign prosecution is sufficient ground to justify the invocation of the Firth
Amendment privilege against self-incrimination
Held: NO
the Court held that although resident aliens are entitled to the same Fifth Amendment protections
as citizen "persons" the risk of their deportation is not sufficient to sustain a self-incrimination
privilege intended to apply only to the United States government.
The Court explained that since the Fifth Amendment does not bind foreign governments, and that
would not be subject to domestic enforcement of immunity-for-testimony deals, one could not
assert a self-incrimination protection against possible prosecution at their hands.