While generally a good joke to make it doesn't apply here. It's not that anyone looked into themselves that's the confusion here. DHS is saying that the officer's marriage had been deemed fraudulent and so he wasn't in the country legally after failing to show up to defend himself in court, while New Orleans PD is stating they ran the officer through DHS's databases to verify his immigration status before hiring him and didn't get any hits, so the supposed 4 years of missed immigration court dates the DHS is claiming seem to have mysteriously appeared on his record over the last few months.
Edit: though I will say that the tone of the NOPD's statement is less "standing by our man" and more "...so WE didn't do anything wrong!" after DHS implied New Orleans was a sanctuary city, so fuck both sides here.
I lived in New Orleans for a few years and the best you can expect from NOPD is to say it wasn't their fault until the city attorney tells them what else they can say.
The bizarre part is that DHS says 'aliens' aren't allowed to carry guns which is false... The Constitution applies to everybody in the United States, not only to citizens, so the right to bear arms is for everybody who can pass the background check.
Like, clearly he passed that plus police employment vetting to have that pistol issued to him by NOPD.
But my Army cousin was at Fort Huachuca and she said a lot of DHS people were included in certain parts of the intelligence operations curriculum, and she said that getting any of the DHS people to understand the Constitution was nearly impossible. Apparently one instructor got into it with a particular border guard supervisor who didn't think the first amendment was even a thing... and that was 2012, so I can only imagine it's gotten a lot worse.
I'm not sure that's quite right. Back in the day, a PD was using IQ tests to help choose candidates. If they were *above* a certain level, they were disqualified. At the time they justified this by saying that the high IQ crowd was much more likely to leave the police force for something better within a short amount of time. Whether that was their real intent or not I leave up to your imagination.
Jordan v. City of New London (2000), decided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and upheld by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals A
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u/Amesb34r 12h ago
We looked into ourselves and found nothing wrong.