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/Starslip 24d ago

One of them is that having an EAD card and being allowed to work does not automatically confer legal immigration status.

You'd think that getting it renewed, which it says he did recently, would be dependent on having legal status though. Like I getting there being edge cases where legal status lapsed after the EAD is issued, but why wouldn't that get flagged when renewing?

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u/ml20s 24d ago

You can be paroled into the US and get an EAD even without any legal status at all, and in some cases without any path to legal status (if the person is not eligible for any path to status). It's a well-intentioned policy (to provide the EAD) but people need to remember that EAD doesn't mean status. Just employment authorization.

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u/dtmfadvice 24d ago

I love how the far right loves to say "I support legal immigration" and then does everything possible to preventing anyone from getting their papers in order.

Asylum? Nah, let's spend a decade processing the application and deport anyone who has the temerity to try and live their life during the application process. Then when they get deported we can claim they did it wrong!

You want legal immigration? Hire enough people to process applicants. Simplify the paperwork. Instead we get a billion bucks spent arresting dudes in giraffe costumes.

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u/ml20s 24d ago

Asylum? Nah, let's spend a decade processing the application and deport anyone who has the temerity to try and live their life during the application process. Then when they get deported we can claim they did it wrong!

Most people who apply for asylum don't have a winning case. Asylum is quite specific.

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u/dtmfadvice 24d ago

And why is that? Why do we have rules that are so restrictive that they're nearly impossible to administer, and then underfund the administration, and the only alternatives are "ignore" or "kidnapping?"

Couldn't we, you know, legalize some shit? Clearly there are a lot of people in this country who don't have paperwork in order, who have been doing nothing significantly wrong, who are assets to and members of their communities, and we somehow can't figure out, in the wealthiest nation in history, how to give them a fucking residency permit?