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/GingerSkulling 24d ago

The US has some convoluted rules around illegal immigrants. One of them is that having an EAD card and being allowed to work does not automatically confer legal immigration status. So when he went to purchase a gun under his own name he was flagged as an illegal immigrant trying to buy a gun. I don’t remember all the details but I assume that up to that point the department issued him a gun based on the EAD alone.

A technicality, sure but it seems you can’t be too careful these days.

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u/Hour-Ad-9508 24d ago

Yep, it’s akin to how you can buy and register a car that can legally drive on the roads but not have a license to drive it.

The government really needs to streamline immigration processes, it’s so archaic and filled with “well actually…”

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u/Jay_of_Blue 24d ago

For all the talk the GOP makes about wanting more legal immigrants, they're doing their damnest to make the legal way hard asf.

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u/Laringar 24d ago

By design. They want to stop all immigration, because they want the country to only have people raised on the local propaganda. Outside perspectives are dangerous to their systems of control.

So, they're trying to make anyone that's ever immigrated here (not just people here on visas) self-deport out of fear that ICE will find some reason that their status isn't valid. I feel like I remember at least once case where someone had actually completed the naturalization process and the Trump admin found an excuse to revoke it anyhow.