Via David Codrea
“Police departments hiring immigrants as officers,” USA Today reported Sunday.
“[S]ome [departments] are allowing immigrants who are legally in the
country to wear the badge. From Hawaii to Vermont, agencies are allowing
green-card holders and legal immigrants with work permits to join their
ranks.”
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, that depends on what the meaning of the term “legal” is.
“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,” the story explains. “That
means people in the country on temporary visas or are applying for green
cards can join.”
While some apologist for the policy, like Ali Noorani, executive
director of the National Immigration Forum, which advocates for “a pathway to citizenship for those who are here illegally,”
dismiss security concerns as a “straw man” argument, Mark Krikorian,
director of the Center for Immigration Studies, warns that standards
for ensuring that are far from assured. And while he is unconcerned
“with green-card holders ... because they've made a long-term commitment
to the country and have undergone extensive background checks ... he
worries about the security risks associated with allowing any immigrant
with a work permit to become an officer, especially considering that the
Obama administration has given hundreds of thousands of undocumented
immigrants work permits.”
It’s more than that, which Krikorian’s own organization has documented. A lot more, if a CIS study published in February is accurate.
“More than 2.2 million work permits were issued over this time period
[2009 to 2014] to illegal aliens or aliens unqualified for admission,”
director of policy studies Jessica Vaughn elaborated. “Nearly all of
these (2.1 million) were illegal aliens who crossed the border illegally
(Entered Without Inspection). Inexplicably, 2,860 work permits were
issued to aliens who were denied asylum, were suspected of using
fraudulent documents, were stowaways, or were refused at a port of
entry.”
Read the rest @ http://www.examiner.com/article/cities-using-work-permit-aliens-to-enforce-gun-edicts-and-laws-against-citizens?CID=examiner_alerts_article
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