As I read the USA Today March 21, 2015 news report, “Police departments hiring immigrants as officers” I realized that my late father was, once again, correct. He used to say, “Nothing is so good it could not be better or so bad it could not get worse.” Hard as it is to imagine, things have gotten worse — much, much worse.
Here is an excerpt from the USA Today article:
At a time when 25,000 non-U.S. citizens are serving in the U.S. military, some feel it’s time for more police and sheriff departments to do the same. That’s why the Nashville Police Department is joining other departments to push the state legislature to change a law that bars non-citizens from becoming law enforcement officers.
Department spokesman Don Aaron said they want immigrants who have been honorably discharged from the military to be eligible for service.
“Persons who have given of themselves in the service to this country potentially have much to offer Tennesseans,” he said. “We feel that … would benefit both the country and this city.”
Current rules vary across departments.
Some, like the Chicago and Hawaii police departments, allow any immigrant with a work authorization from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become an officer. That means people in the country on temporary visas or are applying for green cards can join.
Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Justin Mullins said the department usually struggles to fill trooper positions in less populous corners of the state, including patrol sectors high up in the mountains. He said immigrants from Canada, the Bahamas, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Central America who are willing to live in those remote places have helped the agency fill those vacancies.
“People that want to live there and build a family there and work there is a little more difficult to find,” Mullins said. “People moving from out of state, or out of the country, if they’re willing to work in these areas, then that’s great for us.”
Other agencies, like the Cincinnati Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, require that officers at least have a pending citizenship application on file with the federal government. And others, like the Burlington, Vt., and Boulder, Colo., police departments, require that officers be legal permanent residents, or green-card holders.
The notion that it is acceptable to hire non-citizens, and in some jurisdictions, aliens who aren’t even lawful immigrants as police officers, defies logic and reasonableness. However, this lunacy should not really come as a surprise. After all, the presumptive next Attorney General has some distressing ideas about immigration that came to light during her confirmation hearing as noted in a Yahoo/AP news report, “Attorney General nominee defends Obama immigration changes,”
I included an excerpt of that report in my February 2, 2015 article for FrontPage Magazine, “Loretta Lynch: Same as the Old Boss – The Attorney General nominee’s disturbing views on U.S. immigration law.”
Here is the quote from the Yahoo/AP report:
Lynch said she had no involvement in drafting the measures but called them “a reasonable way to marshal limited resources to deal with the problem” of illegal immigration. She said the Homeland Security Department was focusing on removals of “the most dangerous of the undocumented immigrants among us.”
Pressed by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a leading immigration hard-liner, she said citizenship was not a right for people in the country illegally but rather a privilege that must be earned. However, when Sessions asked whether individuals in the country legally or those who are here unlawfully have more of a right to a job, Lynch replied, “The right and the obligation to work is one that’s shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here.”
Sessions quickly issued a news release to highlight that response. Under later questioning by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, Lynch clarified it, stating there is no right to work for an immigrant who has no lawful status.
Ms Lynch’s statement that everyone, irrespective of how they came to the United States, has an obligation to work is certainly unsettling, to say the least, especially since she will, if confirmed as Attorney General, set the standards for criminal prosecutions of federal crimes across the United States — including crimes that involve violations of our nation’s immigration laws.
Of course Ms. Lynch made a half-hearted attempt to make it seem as though, in her judgement, U.S. citizenship was a privilege, but, with the incredible hiring practices of a number of police departments around the United States, this distinction about U.S. citizenship no longer matters for law enforcement officers in the United States.
This administration and so-called “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States” have made a mockery of some of our nation’s most important and, you would think, uncontroversial laws — our immigration laws that were enacted to protect innocent lives and the jobs of American workers.
Yet you would never know it to listen to the advocates for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and the mayors and governors who openly shield illegal aliens from detection, thereby undermining national security and public safety.
These politicians refuse to consider how their actions run in direct opposition to the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, the subject of my March 11, 2015 article for FrontPage Magazine “Ignoring the 9/11 Commission’s Warnings — Even as terrorists expand operations in Europe.”
Additionally, consider that last year the DHS released more than 30,000 criminal aliens last year and then had the chutzpah to make a big deal about arresting 2,059 criminal aliens under the aegis of “Operation Cross Check” in a press release ICE issued on March 9, 2015. This press release served as the predication for my March 18, 2015 FrontPage Magazine article, “The Problem at Immigration and Customs Enforcement – A federal agency takes a step forward — and ten steps back.”
On March 19, 2015 I was interviewed by J.D. Hayworth on Newsmax-TV’s program, “America’s Forum” about this deplorable practice of releasing criminal aliens whose very presence in the United States represents a violation of law and aliens who have committed violent crimes, including homicide and rape have been intentionally released by the DHS operating under Mr. Obama’s orders. Newsmax posted a report about my interview with a link to the video under the title, “Michael Cutler: ‘Anarchy’ to Free Illegals Guilty of Crimes.”
Having raised the issue of “anarchy,” on March 12, 2012 Californians for Population Stabilization published my commentary, “Fast Track to Anarchy” which I wrote in response to the wrong-headed decision by the LAPD to not impound the cars of unlicensed illegal alien drivers encountered by their police officers. I wrote my commentary because I expressed my concerns that this was pushing California down the slippery slope of anarchy.
