Hanover Park, Ill., Responds to DHS Claims About Alleged Illegal Alien Cop
He can apparently use a gun to enforce the law, but if he fails to turn it in at the end of the day, he becomes the criminal
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 18, 2025
Yesterday I examined DHS’s claims about a Montenegrin national who was working as a police officer in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, Ill., and who was arrested by ICE for overstaying his nonimmigrant tourist visa. The Village of Hanover Park has responded to DHS’s assertions, and the various claims concerning the status (and authorities) of Officer Radule Bojovic are only getting more bizarre.
Yet Another Quick Recap
This case is playing out against a backdrop of acrimony between the Trump administration, “border czar” Tom Homan, and ICE officers on the ground in Illinois on the one side and the state’s Democrat governor, J.B. Pritzker, on the other.
Pritzker’s been playing both sides on immigration-enforcement since the November 2024 election, arguing both that “violent criminals have no place on our streets, and if they are undocumented, I want them out of Illinois and out of our country” and that “law-abiding, hardworking, tax-paying people who have been in this country for years should have a path to citizenship”.
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) doesn’t have a “law-abiding, hardworking, tax-paying” carve-out for aliens here unlawfully (though respectfully those attributes should be baselines for all of us), however, and so while Homan is focused on a “worst first” enforcement regime, ICE officers haven’t shied away from picking up other illegal immigrants.
And with respect to Gov. Pritzker, as I’ve noted, if he were serious about “violent criminals”, he’d allow ICE access to the state’s prisons and jails to identify criminal aliens and keep them off the “streets”.
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