(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Responding in part to a dwindling number of police officers who have fled the state’s skyrocketing crime rates fueled by Soros-compliant woke prosecutors, non-U.S. citizens in Illinois have been given state arrest powers.
Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation that will allow foreign nationals to become police officers, slipping its controversial passage into a pile of 130 other bills.
“No sane state would allow foreign nationals to arrest their citizens, this is madness!” tweeted Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., who slammed Pritzker for signing the bill “at 5pm” on a Friday “when no one was paying attention.”
The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police had vigorously opposed the legislation with a warning of its potential dire consequences.
“What message does this legislation send when it allows people who do not have legal status to become the enforcers of our laws?” the group argued when the bill was being debated. “This is a potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement at a time when our officers need all the public confidence they can get.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., added her own warning after the bill was signed into law.
“You know the other blue states are watching and getting ready to implement this idea as soon as they can!” Boebert tweeted. “We either address this border crisis or allow our country to descend further into a Leftist dystopia.”
The law, HB3751, declares that foreign nationals who “are legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of police officer, subject to all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject.”
The bill states that any foreign national who “is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process” can apply to become a police officer in the state.
I wonder what they want to use them for?
— TheBigGuy9 (@HumilityForward) July 31, 2023
Illinois Republican state Sen. state Sen. Chapin Rose, lambasted the legislation before its passage.
“To hand the power to arrest and detain a citizen of this state, or a citizen of any state in the United States, to a noncitizen is a fundamental breach of democracy,” Rose said. “It is antithetical to the police power of any state.”
