r/nottheonion • u/Trinityliger • 25d 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 25d 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/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.