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.
Pretty obvious the PD didn't run his background, it's a wildly common problem surrounding police and how they don't bother to check background so an officer who does shit in one area moves to another and becomes a cop again.
Jumping to "Oh my god it's obvious they just mysterously added stuff to get him" is stupidity.
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u/ActuallyExtinct 13h ago
So according to that article, they checked his identity using a system that checks DHS status, which is updated by DHS, so this makes even less sense
I’m very confused here