“Non-Citizens Can Now Become Police Officers in Illinois, The Epoch Times reports. “Illinois Gov. Jay Robert Pritzker has signed into law a bill allowing non-citizens to become police officers over the objection of the biggest police union in the state, which called it a ‘potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement.’”
“Foreign nationals who are legally authorized under federal law to work in the United States or any foreign national who ‘is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process’ but who is authorized to possess a firearm can now apply to become a police officer in Illinois, according to the text of the bill,” the report elaborates. The reason?
“The Chicago Police Department (CPD), alongside many other departments across the United States, is hemorrhaging officers faster than it can find qualified applicants,” the report explains, citing reasons including “defund the police” demands. Put another way, to borrow a phrase from former President George Bush; they’re doing the “jobs that Americans won’t do.”
On this, cheap labor Republicans and “pathway to citizenship” Democrats can agree. And the wider immigration issue is directly related to the “single issue” of the right to keep and bear arms, even though none of the “gun rights” groups want to talk about the threat.
The crisis is more than a “potential,” and it covers a lot more than “confidence in law enforcement.”
As noted in a January Firearms News article about a similar development in Nevada:
Foreigners will be empowered to arrest American citizens at gunpoint on U.S. soil. And acting as disarmament edict enforcers should any run afoul of Silver State infringements like registration precursor and private sale-banning “universal background checks,” due process-denying guilty-until-proven innocent “extreme risk protection orders,” and its own “bump stock” ban.
Also noted is that according to the Constitution, “all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.”
How a foreign national can do that without any conflict of loyalty or understanding is left unexplained. They have not become citizens and renounced prior allegiances, yet they’ll still be swearing an oath to the Constitution. And they’ll be authorized to employ the full continuum of violence against citizens to enforce all laws, including “gun laws.”
It’s tough enough with domestic “Only Ones” inclined to obey any orders without questioning their lawfulness. What kind of restraint can we expect from mercenaries who do not come from a Bill of Rights culture, but from despotic and impoverished areas of the world where a totalitarian government dictates what privileges it will recognize and what obedience it demands? And they’ll also enjoy exemptions “relating to weapons; authorizing certain law enforcement officers and retired law enforcement officers to carry certain concealed weapons and firearms in certain circumstances…” that are withheld from “We the people.”
Then there’s one other reality no one with mass influence is talking about: How “complete” can their “background checks” be?
Where do the records come from and what audits have been performed to ensure system integrity and that they are comprehensive and uncompromised? Some corrupt or hostile regime’s filing system? Something else? Bribery/baksheesh isn’t a way of life with administrators there? And no one else has any interest in falsifying or just plain omitting records, assuming any exist or haven’t been destroyed in the first place?
It figures fascist regimes would recruit these new “Hessians” to supplement their iron fists and sell it as “progressive” inclusiveness and diversity. Instead of “Back the blue” the slogan could be “Back the blue helmets,” but who needs to import foreign troops when would-be rulers have ensured a practically limitless reservoir already here of potential enforcers desperate and/or eager enough to abet their trying to secure a monopoly of violence?
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
I have no problem with naturalized citizens becoming police officers, but arming foreigners – NON citizens – in order to have them police Americans in what is supposed to be our own country looks downright treasonous to me.
It is far from “crazy” to hire foreigners to oppress one’s own population. Who is better positioned to kill and trample on a people, but foreigners that detest them? Nothing new about this. Rome was famous for it. Once taking over a Country, Rome would not hire the police for that area from the local population. They noticed that locals were more likely to favor the local people with an element of fair play, rather than follow orders to repress them. One of ancient Rome’s best tricks was to hire the police for a given area, from foregners that didn’t… Read more »
We’ve just been thinking of ourselves as way too “special”, to fall for the same ancient scams that our ancestors fell for. The problem is, not knowing how the scam works, is what makes it possible in the first place! Once one wakes up and notices it, the con game is unmistakable. 🙂 It’s a lot like the “Silent Weapons”, from the Office of Naval Intelligence: “It makes no obvious explosive noises, causes no obvious physical or mental injuries, and does not obviously interfere with anyone’s daily social life. Yet it makes an unmistakable “noise,” causes unmistakable physical and mental… Read more »
I am. In the days of the Pioneers each community hired their own teachers, that taught the subjects that the ones paying them wanted taught. These are now called the old “one room country schools”. The US Government gradually replaced them with the current system, wherein the government pays the teachers(with our money, OFC), and thus teaches only what the government wants taught. They lifted the system from Prussia, who created it to train obedient mercenaries, that the Landsgraves would then rent out to the highest bidder. These were the “Hessians” that King George hired to fight us in the… Read more »
wrong word, idiots is what the system produces, to stupid to think on their own. slaves are forced to do by fear or Coercion
Thx, music. I might not be doing any good, but I try at least. 🙂
“I’m only one man and I can’t do everything. But I am one man, and I can do something…” – Anon, bc I can’t remember who or where… or the rest of it either. But I do agree with the sentiment. None of us can do everything, but each one of us can do something.
Even naturalized citizenship guarantees nothing. The Obama/Biden years gave citizenship to the biggest leftists on earth!
Nothing is guaranteed, but I’ve known a number of naturalized citizens who’ve been the most honest, honorable, hard working and PATRIOTIC people it’s been my privilege to associate with. On the other hand, not all natural-born American citizens are worthy of being cops either – I’ve no doubt many of the violent Antifi/BLM rioters from 2020 came from families who’d all been natural-born citizens for generations. In Chicago, gangs have been recruiting youths – natural born citizens – early, keeping them “clean” and infiltrating them into the Chicago police force for years. That’s why SERIOUS vetting is needed for ALL… Read more »
mob has lawyers and judges that ARE members by family
Led – just off the top of my head I thought of two prime examples: mayorkas and the spokes muppet. More than ample proof of your contention.
The Illinois Gestapo. Another reason why I will never set foot in that state…
reciprocity should ONLY be approved if the law is written to also anduniversally include the “permitless” carry permits now in I think its 27 states. If a person can carry lawfully in his home state, he IS able to also lawfully carry in any OTHER state. READ the purpose and intent of what is commonly referred to as the “commerce clause” in the Bill of Rights. That is NOT a “bill of permissions”.
“I hate Illinois Nazis!” -John Belushi
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https://youtu.be/ZTT1qUswYL0?t=99
The US is under attack by leftist marxist. How can any person who is not a US citizen arrest US citizens?? They can’t anymore than they have the legal right to disarm us..It’s coming to a head and it won’t be pretty..
“I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all outta gum”
Bring it on you pansy communist Marxist POS’s
The coming war will redefine the planet.
Being a truly armed society we have the best chance in history to beat the NWO.
Once we accomplish that most other countries will see the power of a Constitutional Republic.
Then and only then will “We the people” be free.
Probably because no normal person would want to be Police Officer in the combat zone Chicago has become!
The smiling fools in the above picture are working hard to cancel 2nd Amendment rights. They don’t realize that somebody is working just as hard to cancel their 1A rights. When someone takes that away from them there’ll be wailing and rending of clothing and they’ll say “why didn’t somebody stop them?”, but then it’s too late. They couldn’t be stopped because you people took away the guns.
The definitely realize it because they are the exact same scum who are actively trying to eliminate the 1st amendment. I guarantee everyone in the picture supports a federal ban on “hate speech,” loves media censorship, and supports criminal penalties for “misgendering” a person. It’s all the same Marxists going after our entire bill of rights. All of them should be guilty of treason.
Forien nationals have been serving in our military for decades. I went in the army at the end of Vietnam and served alongside many such people. One was in the U.S. on a student visa when his family back home were suddenly being eliminated. He figured he was much safer In our army than anywhere else. That being said, I think law enforcement of any kind is too close to home for anyone, who hasn’t become a citizen, to have that power over us. Sounds like a way for a tyrannical government to build an army more aligned with that… Read more »
Shot – true enough about non Citizens serving in the military. That being said, there were (and probably still are) certain conditions on them. Choice of ratings (MOS for the army types) they can be in as well as limits on advancement and reenlistment opportunities. Some of that may have changed since I retired.
Undocumented aliens should not be able to work.
Please do hire DACA recipients and all you can. They are still illegal aliens being shielded by a policy memo that is probably unconstitutional, and there is a law that says illegal aliens cannot be in possession of firearms so now you get them deported for the felony of possession.
Sounds like Illinois is employing foreigners to enforce thier Marxist agendas . This is why I will never set foot in Illinois . Illinois is quickly becoming a communist stronghold in America .
“…they’re doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.”
Typically, when that phrase is used it’s inaccurate, but would be accurate if rephrased as: “They’re doing the jobs that Americans won’t do for the same pay.” The job can’t be outsourced to a foreign country, so they are outsourcing the jobs to foreigners who are in this country.
UN blue helmets sure make target identification easier, though…
We could start calling them “blue turbans”, like Nostradamus did! 🙂
he recognized the turks wearing them
And blue trucks are there when you need to replenish freedom pills.
Hmmmm those bright red Mad Mamas tees are every bit as distinguishable as are the bright blue domes mentioned above. You raise some scary-valid points, particularly on the issue of vetting putative officer candidates. The earlier piece on the asylee who opened fire on an accident scene proves the validity of your points. If they could not/did not “vet” this trouiblemaker, what hope to we have they’ll dobetter just cause the guy wants to be a cop, get free guns and ammo, and flex his “awthoratee” muscles at will. Its bad enough the decay in our present police forces. The… Read more »
progs do not care about obeying the law, they will do what they want with little to no repercussion’s.
They need to bring their own body bags.
didn’t the Roman empire start depending on mercenaries and foreigners and non citizens to defend their empire? How did that work out?
About as well as the current war is going for Ukraine. 🙂
” … Who need blue helmets?”
We talkin’ open sights or optics?
They’re doing the same thing here in CO.. it’s the foreign globalist takeover of the US. Better get used to it…maybe learn a few foreign languages.
This is just the furtherance of the insanity that is the democrat party. I’m just surprised they didn’t make ANTIFA membership required to be in law enforcement.
We need to have McCarthy style hearing for the unAmerian democrat party, which has morphed into the communist party McCarthy rightly warned us about. I actually think the democrat party should be illegal.