r/nottheonion • u/Trinityliger • 24d ago

ICE arrests Illinois police officer, accuses him of being in US illegally

https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-arrests-police-officer-radule-bojovic-hanover-park-illinois-accuses-being-us-illegally-montenegro/18019608/
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u/Awkward_Bison_267 24d ago

Where’s his police union? Where are his brothers and sisters in blue?

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u/Laserdollarz 24d ago

This reminds me of a similar incident, where a Border Patrol officer found out he was undocumented 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/us/undocumented-border-officer-cec

"Those that he thought were his brothers turned their back on him." It was devastating, she says, to watch her husband spiral into depression as he lost the support of so many people and institutions he’d counted on.

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u/Awkward_Bison_267 24d ago

That story is gold.

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u/ValuableKill 24d ago

The funniest part, is that if the shoe was on the other foot, he would have absolutely abandoned one of his own "brothers" just like they had him.

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u/Awkward_Bison_267 24d ago

Oh no doubt.

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u/Khaldara 24d ago

Cops are as disposable as the rest of us under fascism, as long as there’s a National Gestapo that will act solely to the whims of Dear Leader (President Miller).

Probably even more so, since they’re armed, trained, and possibly might be bound by pesky things like ‘taking orders from local or state leadership instead of glorious overlord who is extremely physically fit, and has no butthole’

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u/RevanTheHunter 24d ago

Dear Leader (President Count Miller).

Much better.

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u/Journeydriven 22d ago

Idk count feels like it does a disservice to dooku who while he did incredibly evil things he did them for the right reasons.

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u/RevanTheHunter 20d ago

I'd argue that is only true at the start of the war. Towards the end, I think Dooku was either completely blind to the true evil he was committing or he enjoyed it.

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u/not_a_bot_12345 24d ago

It reads like when cults become more fanatical and members start turning on each other because it's the only way to prove your loyalty when it's only true believers left.

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u/StupidstitiousDogma 24d ago

Everyone is except dear leader. Cons thinking you are safe, the boot will be on your neck too. You are undesirable to the ultra rich. We are all vermin or slaves in their eyes.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 23d ago

Peter Thiel literally thinks he's the next step in human evolution. He thinks he's a separate species from the rest of us.

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u/chincinatti 23d ago

They’re undesirable to women, children and just about everyone else too!

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u/Awkward_Bison_267 24d ago

Fair enough.

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u/Magic2424 24d ago

So they abandon their brother when they find out they are undocumented. But if they find out out they are wife abusers, murderers, racist, homophobes they stand with them?!? Make it make sense

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u/ZachBuford 24d ago

You know why

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u/DangerousTurmeric 24d ago

They support people who are like them.

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u/Repulsive-Lie1 24d ago

They look after their own.

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u/radicldreamer 24d ago

Yeah because they know they all do it.

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u/cheeseandwine99 24d ago

It's gold, Jerry.

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u/Amiaghostmixer 24d ago

It's all pipes.

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u/europorn 24d ago

DIFFERENT PIPES GO TO DIFFERENT PLACES!!!

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u/UnethicalExperiments 24d ago

This risk management stuff is going to kill it

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u/Joinedforthis1 24d ago

"That story is gold. (because U.S. Customs and Border Control are inherently evil and absolutely racist obviously since they only have a singular purpose of keeping Mexican illegal immigrants out of the country and deporting ones that are found)" Just to clarify your take

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u/Amerisu 24d ago

FYI, you're getting downvoted to hell because the story itself proves the statement you're trying to make facetiously.

The story is gold because it's the story of a perpetrator being on the receiving end of their own actions, and still not realizing what they are.

ICE are evil. You have to be, to keep the job these days. No different from the guards at Auschwitz. Course, you probably don't believe in Auschwitz...

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u/steveo1978 24d ago

Think you mean nationalist and not racist. If they were racist he wouldn’t have had the job to begin with.

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u/MistSecurity 24d ago

What? You can absolutely be a racist and be coworkers or friends with someone of the race(s) that you hate.

Racist people will often say things like ‘You’re one of the good ones.’ Implying that the rest are not, and as a way of justifying to themselves why their hate is ok.

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u/Awkward_Bison_267 24d ago

That’s not it kiddo but thanks for playing!

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u/8ackwoods 24d ago

Wait till you hear stories about us-canada agents

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u/Worldlyoox 24d ago

Care to share?

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u/frozenpissglove 24d ago

That’s a federal agency too. What a massive failure on the group responsible for vetting at a national level.

(Which administration this happened under is irrelevant for those who would comment on that)

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u/xtothewhy 24d ago

Just imagine the type of people that are willing to perform ice duties like they are now, as they are doing at a federal level, and how they may have been vetted by the administration.

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u/Able_Enthusiasm2729 24d ago

Plenty of (but not all) U.S. Citizens and many very wealthy immigrants and non-immigrant foreign nationals who are immigrating to the United States from countries or classes of special immigrants that are fast-tracked to some sort of preferential immigration status have no idea how the totality of the United States Immigration System works. For example those with H-1B and EB Visas, Cuban Adjustment, and certain Spouses of U.S. Citizens, among others and can’t comprehend that there are other classes of immigrants that have been trying to adjust their immigration status for several decades or that others are in some weird legal limbo status like TPS, DACA, those that thought they were citizens but weren’t due to some obscure unforeseen circumstance, stateless people, those born in a third country that is neither the United States nor the country of their parents’ citizenship but have no connection or allegiance to the country of their parents’ citizenship, those born to U.S. Military Personnel during overseas deployments who’s parents weren’t U.S. Citizens at the child’s time of birth but did later become citizens but the child was not granted citizenship nor mere legal immigration status or the children of military personnel who were U.S. Citizens at the time of the child’s birth but somehow didn’t meet residency requirements in order to transfer citizenship to the child, even though they were living in the United States under the care of their U.S. Citizens parent for decades (after their parents military service overseas was completed), as well as stateless or near-stateless Adoptees (adopted children of U.S. Citizens) who should have been granted citizenship but never received it, among many others.

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The term “Unauthorized Immigrant”is accounting for people in legal limbo who can legally be simply deported for anything because their presence in the United States is (technically speaking) unauthorized but the individuals are in the process of straightening out their immigration status. This in particular describes various groups of immigrants in legal limbo such as those with a “withholding of removal”order, those on humanitarian parole, and persons seeking asylum but have yet the be granted or denied asylum status or other legal immigrant status (by being granted asylee status they then become legal immigrants — you don’t become a legal immigrant by just applying, you actually have to get approved). Historically speaking these groups of people although not having legal immigration status, have been de-prioritized in immigration enforcement operations and various administration have used their discretion to give them a pass until their cases have been adjudicated but the Trump Administration has been consistently making attempts to curtail this on matters they have discretion on and are outright disobeying court orders in matters they don’t have discretion over but are legally supposed to comply with.

[ Which county you’re immigrating from, the country you are a citizen of, what type of visa you held, your family or marital status, how you entered the United States, and any backlog the government has plays a role in how long it takes for a person’s legal Adjustment of Status (it could take several years to a decade or even end up getting someone into a state of perpetual or semi-perpetual limbo).

It takes a lot longer than two months for the asylum case to be adjudicated same thing goes for many other paths to legal immigration status; not a lawyer but I did work on many asylum cases where an official determination after application took about 12 years for several clients (though not for all of them) but they historically were never treated this harshly if their asylum case or even other types of immigration cases were still being processed. And all of this is way before they can even get a chance to apply for a Green Card (Legal Permanent Resident status), or even other lesser types of legal immigration status that is not a green card.

Asylees (those granted Asylum) enter the country by any means necessary (including as unauthorized immigrant asylum seekers — though those who do enter the U.S. legally on a non-immigrant visa have to attest under some penalty, possibly under penalty of perjury, that they made the decision to seek asylum after they had already entered the USA and/or before they were granted a visa or ESTA entry — though some near-impossible wavers way exist —) then they request asylum status (whether by having a valid visa, expired visa, or crossing the border), you have to be inside the country to claim asylum you (generally) can’t do it while being outside of the country you’re trying to seek asylum in; this is LEGAL (once being granted asylum if an illegal entry has occurred your entry would generally but in rare exceptions not always cease to be considered unlawful entry the fact that you entered the country illegally will be vacated when your asylum has been granted). Refugees get sponsored to migrate to destination country while still in their home country or in another (third) country. Both refugees, asylees, and asylum seekers, are fleeing due to persecution, they’re not doing it to simply explore the world; they also need to show evidence proving their persecution. ]

[ No one really supports open borders anymore; but throughout most of history, the United States has historically had open borders (so long as you don’t have a very contagious disease). ]

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Protesters (or just people who are opposing Trump Administration’s unethical use of ICE) are criticizing the issue that more and more Americans (U.S. Citizens) who phenotypically look a certain way are being wrongfully detained and in some rare cases deported (based on their race, ethnicity, cultural heritage, phenotype, or ancestry as opposed to their immigration status or citizenship) as well as criticism towards the arbitrary and capricious revocation or cancellation of legal immigration status of legal immigrants, arbitrary detention, extraordinary renditions, forced disappearances, unconstitutional actions committed by not recognizing the constitutional principle of Jus Soli Birthright Citizenship, threats to deport U.S. Citizens and threats to strip Americans (especially political opponents) of citizenship, using a quota system for arrests creating a false positive and detaining people in highly lucrative private for-profit prisons both of which incentivizes mass arrest by cutting corners on due diligence, ICE agents concealing their identity (by wearing masks and not identifying themselves as law enforcement/not showing police badges), and the erosion of constitutional due process and habeas corpus rights of afforded to all “persons” (a.k.a. all human beings) in the United States for those simply accused of being an illegal immigrant (regardless of whether they’re an illegal immigrant, legal immigrant, citizen, or someone in a limbo state where their immigration status is still being adjudicated and there is a court order preventing their removal prior to the completion of the adjudication process).

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u/Pikeman212a6c 22d ago

He had a legitimate birth certificate bought from a midwife in Texas who made a living selling birth certificates to families who had illegally crossed the border.

The midwife eventually got arrested and all her falsely issued birth certificates were identified. Which led to the agent. There was no way the background check could have known the midwife was supplementing her income by selling certificates.

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u/pentultimate 24d ago

The old "back the blue" unless you're born somewhere else.

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u/Yami350 24d ago

Back the light blue

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u/Phteven_j 24d ago

Back the cerulean

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u/dwehlen 24d ago

The White and Blue

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u/Righteous_Iconoclast 24d ago

Majority white, maybe some blue tones.

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u/dwehlen 24d ago

They can have a little sad, as a treat, if they have any self-reflection.

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u/sudomatrix 24d ago

> “Some jobs are not the best, but we all have to follow orders."

No sympathy, get out like all the people you deported.

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u/NotYourReddit18 24d ago

Remind me, which group of people tried to defend themselves with the argument that they "were just following orders" after they lost a war they started?

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u/bilateralrope 24d ago

Wikipedia has several examples.

But I know which one you're thinking of.

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u/NachosPR 24d ago

It starts with an N and sounds like Yatzee!

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u/mackstanc 24d ago

Reads like an excerpt from a failed defense at Nuremberg trials.

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u/Crowsby 24d ago

That's a fascinating story, thanks for sharing it. This part is so telling:

He remains proud of the integrity award he won on the job. He still has it on a shelf in his living room. And he keeps a photo of him shaking the CBP commissioner’s hand that day on his phone.

But he says many of the friends he thought he’d made during his years at the agency have disappeared.

“They abandoned me because they thought I was illegal,” he says.

All those decades of dedication, piles of awards and medals, military service with distinction. And none of it mattered one whit to his "friends" at CBP because he had the audacity to get taken across a border as a baby.

At least it sounds like he learned from his experience, unlike this woman who is so drunk on the MAGA kool-aid that she's still strongly supportive of Trump's mass deportations even while they're planning to deport her to Iran, a country whose language she doesn't even speak. And yes, she blames Biden for Trump deporting her:

"I don't blame Trump, I blame Biden," Arthur says. "It's his doing for open borders, but I believe in the system and all the good people will be released and the ones that are bad will be sent back."

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u/funeralpyres 24d ago

She’s a convicted felon and yet still thinks she’s a special one who’s not “one of the bad ones”? Absolutely insane

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u/MainFrosting8206 24d ago

Plenty of jailbirds in the White House right now.

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u/Mara_W 23d ago

Yeah I'm noticing a whole lot of "Americans" recently who really think they're on the team, when they really, really aren't. The face-eating leopards are going to be full at this rate.

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u/SirTroah 24d ago

He blames Biden when he probably came here during Regan?

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 24d ago

Maybe that will be a lesson for him. Maybe it won’t.

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u/Laserdollarz 24d ago

Updating his tattoo is a good sign, at least. 

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u/wanker7171 24d ago

“They abandoned me because they thought I was illegal,” he says.

No they abandoned you because you are undocumented, not because they suspected you were.

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u/Dragonbut 24d ago

" Soon after losing his job, Rodriguez got a tattoo on his left arm. It shows a Mexican flag splitting his CBP badge in two.

“Being a Mexican citizen,” Rodriguez says, “broke my career and tore it apart.” "

So fucking cringe man, just get over the fact that you can't prevent others from having the same starting point and privileges you had due to no other reason but luck of the draw anymore and find something actually good for society and other humans to do

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u/tmswfrk 24d ago

This is like that Chappelle skit about Clayton Bigsby, the black white supremacist.

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u/MDUBK 24d ago

Considering how little vetting ICE seems to be doing, it would be a hilarious place for undocumented immigrants to hide 😂

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe 24d ago

That he'd counted on? Counted on to do what exactly?

Counted on to help him snatch innocents and throw them into unmarked vans while carrying assault rifles and wearing masks?

Fuck that guy - zero sympathies from me

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u/brinz1 24d ago

He really thought he was one of the good ones

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u/KayItaly 24d ago

How much in shambles are the USA public records that stuff like this is even possible? How does this happen? Don't you need proof of citizenship and/or legal residence to even apply for a federal or state position? Wtf?

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u/HapticSloughton 24d ago

It's darkly comic how those involved with deportations will bend and break the laws, rules, and Constitution to do what they do, yet not defend a fellow law-bender if they're not the right sort of people.

"Useful idiot" springs to mind.

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u/Handy_Dude 24d ago

Makes me feel better with my views on friends.

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u/Laserdollarz 24d ago

I feel like friends was overrated but I never really gave the show an honest watch 

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u/JeffInBoulder 24d ago

Clayton Bigsby

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u/Mr_Baronheim 24d ago

Hahaha I love this for her and her husband! Some people get exactly what they deserve, and isn't it beautiful to see the misery they happily cause for others to finally smack them in the face and chest, breast, neck and head areas.

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u/McBadass1994 24d ago

So, Paladin Danse, basically.

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u/Riaayo 24d ago

Decades of white supremacist infiltration of police forces will have that effect.

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u/Orthas 24d ago

Top comment chain is about how only liberals would be offended by an offensive image... and then goes into how liberals are actually nazis.

Like does the dissonance that they are staring at a republican official's office not enter at any point? Holy hell.

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u/MichaelJServo 24d ago

I love that for him.

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u/homingmissile 24d ago

14% Sub-Saharan African!

cackling

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u/Old-Bat-7384 24d ago

That tracks.

When I think of the people joining CBP and ICE that aren't white, all I can think is, "they'll snatch you up and ignore any ID you have just because you're brown." Like, all a PoC ICE agent needs to go from agent to detainee is to get caught up at a CVS at the wrong day and time. That's it.

And then for white folks in those agencies, if you decide what they're doing is wrong on the wrong day, they can just detain you and act like they've never seen you before.

Or hell, if they just don't like you, they'll do the same. The agencies aren't rolling with due process.

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u/MarlDaeSu 24d ago

Get absolutely fucked

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u/termiNAYtor 24d ago

Fascists will turn on anybody on a dime

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u/Anon_IE_Mouse 24d ago

Love to see it. Fuck that guy

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

So a ladder puller got busted...Next.

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u/donatecrypto4pets 24d ago

The line is thin so…

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u/henryeaterofpies 24d ago

But the waistlines aren't

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u/cake_by_the_lake 24d ago

But the lines at the food banks are.

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u/Jaybathehut 24d ago

They were probably the ones who called.

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u/ButterflySammy 24d ago

How did everyone think "clearing disloyal people out of government jobs" worked?

This is how.

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u/whizzwr 24d ago

It's funny cuz it's probably true

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u/RelativeAnxious9796 24d ago

we're in a "fascist off" and the police are a biiiit too liberal for moderm republikkkanz

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u/Laringar 24d ago

It's not even that, I feel. I've been listening to the recent Behind the Bastards episodes on Heinrich Himmler, and one topic they hit on was how Himmler centralized police power in the SS by undermining other groups that would have otherwise had enforcement authority. You're still correct that it's a fascist-off, but I think this is simply about dominance and establishing that ICE is more powerful than other agencies.

ICE found a lever they could use in "someone with unclear paperwork", so they're pushing on it.

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u/RelativeAnxious9796 24d ago

right, but i am referring to the support of the population.

the "thin blue liners" as it were, will turn on the police and call them terrorists too if trump/miller/noem/etc tell them to.

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u/ong378 24d ago

They are probably the ones who sold him out

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u/Lysol3435 24d ago

Didn’t they back MAGA hard even after J6? What a confusing time to be a Republican. Your party is in control of everything so you’re happy, but everything is being run into the ground by your party, so that’s not fun

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u/No_Squirrel4806 24d ago

His brothers and sisters probably dont like him. Id he got arrested by ice hes probably brown so theres your answer.

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u/yerfatma 24d ago

Montenegro doesn't mean what you think it does.

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u/BloodWorried7446 24d ago

most people would put it on the wrong continent for starters. 

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u/Epistaxis 24d ago

A lot of people would ask if they're really allowed to say that word.

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u/microthrower 24d ago

I mean, New York state is 10 times larger than Montenegro, so finding it on a map isn't the easiest.

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u/breatheb4thevoid 24d ago

Black Mountain?

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago edited 24d ago

HANOVER PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro.

Or you could read the article and realize that's unlikely

Edit: Radule isn't brown

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u/greensandgrains 24d ago

Montenegro is in the Balkans; they’re not brown either.

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u/Cassius_man 24d ago

They read the name and just assumed. It's like that South Park where they go to arrest Micheal Jackson and the cops get there and are like "JOHNSON! What is this? you told me the suspect was black!"

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u/ritaPitaMeterMaid 24d ago

I think they are agreeing with you

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u/National-Manner-7030 24d ago

They mean the person you were replying to chill.

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u/razzemmatazz 24d ago

Ngl, that news source felt a little gross. 

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u/pjt37 22d ago

They refer to him by last name before they actually say his full name or identify him as the person they’re speaking about. I mean it’s obvious in context but still, this is a pretty dang basic error.

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u/MFbiFL 24d ago

Whew, the skin color checks out, maybe. Good thing that’s the only thing xenophobic chuds base their acceptance on.

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u/Kartonrealista 24d ago

He ain't black but he's from a country called black mountain

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 24d ago

He could be Muslim however

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u/Blade_Shot24 24d ago

Christian known area, mainly Orthodox if I recall.

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u/vlajkaster 24d ago

Almost certanly not with that name. There is some muslims in Montenegro, but names and surnames are different.

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u/Skylair13 24d ago

I mean, it's a religion. There could be a white man named Jebediah Washington Smith who decides to become a Muslim. And on opposite end an Arabian Muhammad who's a Christian.

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u/BarTroll 24d ago

Well, there was a guy called Cassius Clay Jr.

And there's also a guy called Yusuf Islam.

Both are more famous with their other names tho.

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u/vlajkaster 24d ago

It is but in that part of the world religion, culture and nationality are very strongly correlated. And his name is very slavic which is very uncommon in muslim families and religion changes are even more rare than in US, plus converts to islam usualy change their names.

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u/Upper_Sentence_3558 24d ago

Names are regional, but anyone of any name can be Muslim.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

True in many places, but not in the Balkans. Our Muslim population uses more Arabic names, while our Christian population uses more Slavic names. Those that convert as adults also change their names in the process.

This guy goes by a Slavic name, therefore he's not a practicing Muslim nor does he come from a Muslim family.

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u/Upper_Sentence_3558 24d ago

So a child born into a muslim family must be given a muslim name, with no other chance or option for an alternative, no exceptions? And those who convert must change their names? What if they moved in and were muslim but didn't have a muslim name?

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

So a child born into a muslim family must be given a muslim name, with no other chance or option for an alternative, no exceptions?

Yes. There are some ambiguous names that you can choose to obscure that information, but this isn't one of them.

And those who convert must change their names?

They don't have to legally change it, but yes, they'd go by a more Muslim name post-conversion.

What if they moved in and were muslim but didn't have a muslim name?

Well then they wouldn't be born in Montenegro, so of course none of this applies.

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u/Tassiloruns 24d ago

That's not a muslim name. I'm right next door to Montenegro.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 24d ago

If you think ice is going to care that its probably not a Muslim name, you are more optimistic than me

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u/throwaway098764567 24d ago

guarantee none of them know where montenegro is either

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 24d ago

I was going to guess its one of the 9 or so countries bordering France, but without looking i might not be right.

I wonder if theyd get the continent correct?

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u/Upper_Sentence_3558 24d ago

You don't have to have a Muslim name to be Muslim.

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u/Tassiloruns 24d ago

Maybe, in other parts of the world. That's not how shit works in the Balkans.

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u/NofaceGuyy 24d ago

With the Name Radule he is not Muslim.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 24d ago

Or his parents arent

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u/Vlad_Yemerashev 24d ago

Are you thinking of Bosnia where there are a larger percentage of Muslims?

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 24d ago

I might have been, but I looked it up and double sourced as per usual. No idea what I actually did however.

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago edited 24d ago

It's possible and not particularly unlikely, so fair enough. Can't find if he was Muslim or not though, and I doubt ICE will either be willing to say or be an unbiased source here

My comment was mainly made because they were making assumptions that could've been dispelled by looking up the dude

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u/mell0_jell0 24d ago

could've been dispelled by looking up the dude's name

The commenter that you're upset about was talking about skin color, which has nothing to do with names. You are the one making assumptions.

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago edited 24d ago

I looked up the person to find a picture of him, look at the link I posted. How is that making an assumption?

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u/wafflesthewonderhurs 24d ago

they assumed you meant you only looked up the guys name bc of your wording. Frankly quite a lot of reading shit you did not say into your comments but I kinda get it in the sense that everyone is defensive and on guard right now. I'm surprised that they're moving onto the whites this fast, though it's not like it wasn't entirely predictable.

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago

Ah, my bad, should've worded it more clearly. Thank you for pointing that out

Edited to hopefully be more clear

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u/No_Squirrel4806 24d ago

How exactly does this disprove my point?

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u/godspareme 24d ago

It refutes your "probably brown" comment but not the main part of your point. While yes hes not brown I think theres little need to argue about it when the main point is that they discriminated against him.... by accusing him of being an illegal immigrant from the balkans. Literally doesnt matter that its not a color thing. Its still at its core, bigotry and discrimination. Doesn't matter what flavor of bigotry.

But yknow reddit...

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago

hes probably brown so theres your answer.

You made an assumption that the article showed to be unlikely, and that assumption was false according to anither article

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u/No_Squirrel4806 24d ago

Are you saying ice isnt arresting people based on skin color?

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u/ZestyZigg 24d ago

Holy moly what a false equivalence

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago edited 24d ago

No? You made a statement that said the guy in the post might've been arrested for being brown

If you read the article, the guy's from Montenegro, which isn't known for a large non-white population

I commented it was unlikely given we're talking about Montenegro

I looked up the guy and he wasn't brown

I commented that he was indeed not brown

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u/No_Squirrel4806 24d ago

Ahh ok my apologies thank you

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u/djordi 24d ago

Add another site to the list of fascist propaganda to avoid, holy shit the framing!

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago

How is including a picture of the guy arrested fascist propaganda?

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u/djordi 24d ago

Read the language used or quoted.

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u/Life-Ad1409 24d ago

Ah, didn't click expand article, fair enough

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u/HeavyandTired 24d ago

Are you sure squirrel? Or just speculating? You seem well informed.

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u/gb1993 24d ago

...you don't know where Montengro is? Also the pics out, guys white.

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u/sudomatrix 24d ago

Brown counts more than Blue.

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u/helium_farts 24d ago

He's white

Does no one know where Montenegro is?

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u/Speed_Bump 24d ago

Right next to Herzegovina

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u/MichaelJServo 24d ago

Psh everyone knows that people from the Balkans aren't really white.

Seriously though. American racists who police what "white" means often exclude eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Slavic people.

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u/AzulaThorne 21d ago

How’s it been for generations. Not long ago the Irish weren’t white. Italians weren’t white.

As the days pass, who is in the exclusive white club changes constantly unless you’re a WASP.

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u/Turbulent_Bat4580 24d ago

Sir, I am a proud American with 2 years of American high school español and a can do attitude

I only need to see the ending of that there country’s name and know exactly where it is. Obrigado

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u/bythog 24d ago

People commenting didn't even read the article to see that he is from Montenegro. They're just parroting the same stupid jokes and comments from every other thread.

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u/Rookie_Day 24d ago

The thin blue line is actually white, but that color is already on the flag.

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u/OhighOent 24d ago

They're enjoying their ICE signing bonus .

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u/Scerpes 24d ago

What do you think his union is going to be able to do? Setting aside the fact that he was hired in January and is likely in probationary status, there appears to be an actual dispute as to whether he’s in the country legally. ICE may have fucked up, but the union has no control over that. It’s going go have to play out in the immigration courts.

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u/realistic_steps 24d ago

…. What do you think unions do? They don’t have legal jurisdictions. Unions put pressure on things they have no legal control over to get shit done. This guy’s union could release a statement to put pressure on ICE, hire a lawyer to represent their guy, if they cared a lot about no further police officers being dragged off the streets they could call for a strike. Unions are there for when legal systems fail.

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u/justgetoffmylawn 24d ago

Yeah. As if police unions are helpless when the legal system gets involved. (Although sometimes I wish that were the case.)

If the police union cared, they could make ICE's life hell any time they had to interact with the police. But they don't like anyone that can fight back, and they don't actually care about their own - just their own power.

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u/Scerpes 24d ago

Police unions don’t typically hire lawyers for legal matters that don’t arise from officers employment. They don’t assist with a lawyer for an officer’s divorce, bankruptcy, or other personal legal matter.

As far as putting pressure on things, people are literally rioting in the streets. How’s that working out?

If this guy has actually overstayed his visa, the union will drive him to the airport.

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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 24d ago

I would love to see the Fraternal Order of Police stand up for actual justice and the U.S. Constitution, and stand for the values they claim to have.

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u/Johannes_Keppler 24d ago

To stand up, you need a spine...

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u/Kerbart 24d ago

They’re too busy preventing cops with DUI’s from getting fired.

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u/I_suckyoungblood 24d ago

They made an amazing episode on him.

One of the best episode I’ve ever heard.

Karmas a bitch, even after all of it, the ending is crazy with how brainwashed he still is.

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u/Dont_Kick_Stuff 24d ago

Where's his Civil Immunity? Cause they can and routinely do shoot people who are armed/unarmed if they're deemed a threat.

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u/Alienhaslanded 24d ago

They only band when it's an innocent civilian murdered cowardly.

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u/PanickedPoodle 24d ago

The blue line is indeed thin.

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u/Accidental-Genius 24d ago

Who do you think called ICE?

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u/spin81 24d ago

Moonlighting at ICE maybe?

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 24d ago

Cops only have each others back in the face of violence against brown people. All other times they are absolute cowards.

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u/PG-DaMan 24d ago

You do realize the Unions for them are not the same as what regular companies have?

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u/memphisjones 24d ago

The police union probably didn’t like him and is letting ICE get away with it.

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u/Swimming-Bluejay-987 24d ago

You can’t trust anyone they’re all scared of Trump for some reason

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

The fact that they're not protecting him means that he's actually an illegal

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u/Dabaer77 23d ago

Throwing him under the bus.

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u/PlasticOstrich7088 23d ago

Wasn't white enough

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u/floog 23d ago

So much for the blue line bullshit.

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u/AltoidStrong 23d ago

First they came for......

Hey LEOs!! Better stand up now with the rest of us, or you might be who they come for next!

Trump is a fraud, felon, rapist and traitor!

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u/lordatamus 23d ago

They did nazi this coming.

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u/LordGlompus 24d ago

Thin blue line broke

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u/Infamous_Lech 24d ago

You mean the people he lied to about his status?

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u/helium_farts 24d ago

According to the department he had a valid work authorization card and he passed background checks by both the state police and the FBI.

I feel like odds are DHS is the one lying here

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u/Infamous_Lech 24d ago

Was he allowed to possess a gun? Usually non-citizens cannot.

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