“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.
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 »
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 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.
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 Illinois Gestapo. Another reason why I will never set foot in that state…