PORTLAND (AP) – A Somali-born woman who moved to the U.S. from Canada eight years ago has been sentenced in U.S. District Court to a year and a day in prison on immigration and fraud charges.

Dona Daoud Adam had moved to Canada in 1993 using her real name, Amina Ismail-Youssouff. In pleading guilty, the 38-year-old Portland woman admitted that she had entered the U.S., changed her name and obtained asylum status under false pretenses by failing to disclose that she was a resident of Canada and already received immigration benefits there.

In Maine, Adam used her fraudulent status to obtain more than $120,000 in benefits that included food stamps, student financial aid and Medicaid.

Adam, a former board member of the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project of Maine, faces deportation after she gets out of prison.

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