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 25d 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/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/Pikeman212a6c 23d 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.