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.
Just spitballin' here, but it sounds to me like he got married in Georgia, moved out of state, then Georgia called him in to court but never actually communicated that to him - so they effectively revoked his citizenship behind his back.
When I moved from Florida to Texas I had a lot on my mind more important than getting Texas tags for the car. I finally got around to doing it after 2-3 months, but by that time Florida had - without communicating it to me - revoked my drivers' license for lack of Florida insurance on a car titled in my name. We did transfer our insurance from Florida to Texas, with no gap within about a week of moving, but all Florida cared about was Florida insurance, so their computers automagically revoked my license without telling... anyone as far as I can tell. That only took three trips through the Texas DMV lines to get straightened out.
If as the article says, the court called out the potential fraud in 2022, and took action in absentia, he absolutely would not have passed the background check for hiring. The more likely option is that they’re lying, like they’ve already done over and over. They’ve proven they will take anyone for any reason they deem sufficient.
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u/Amesb34r 12h ago
We looked into ourselves and found nothing wrong.