Illegal Alien Cops = Lawbreakers with Guns
Commentary
August 8, 2023
By Tom Homan and Matt O’Brien
Illinois has just joined Colorado and California on the list of states that explicitly allow non-citizens to become police officers. Given the damage done to our immigration system by the Obama and Biden Administrations, that’s a disturbing development.
Pursuant to the Supreme Court’s holding in Foley v. Connelie, states are permitted – but not obligated – to exclude non-citizens from eligibility for positions in state and local law enforcement. According to the Court, “police officers fall within the category of ‘important non-elective officers who participate directly in the execution of broad public policy.”
And, given the broad discretion that police officers are permitted to exercise, “citizenship bears a rational relationship to the special demands of the particular position, and a State may therefore confine the performance of this important public responsibility to those who are citizens.”
https://irli.org/illegal-alien-cops-lawbreakers-with-guns/
