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I have a hard time believing this. Like I can't get a job for the current company I am working for without submitting another background check, because my contract ends this weekend. So they had me file another one hoping it will come through by Monday. (I'm sure it won't).
There is no way those officers didn't also have background checks when they applied. You can't apply to any government job, federal or state in any state I have lived in without one.
This isn't the first cop that's been arrested:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/us/maine-police-officer-immigration-arrest-hnk
The background check systems don't seem to be very reliable.
I worked in a field that dealt with child care and I know there are a couple of different checks you can get that are more quick checks and then others that are thorough checks. Cost of each is different. Also, background checks are only good right at that moment so if something happens after then of course it won’t be on a background check until it gets reported and you do another check.
I’m not saying that’s what happened here. I am only trying to point out some specifics about background checks themselves.
The article says he was "encountered during a targeted enforcement action." That sounds like they grabbed him while doing something else and everything they're saying after is an attempt to justify accidentally arresting what they later found out to be a cop who legally immigrated to the US.
He may have overstayed his visa at one point, but was currently legally here. Who knows since there is zero documentation requirements now.
Once overstayed a visa but is here legally now... Hmmm sounds like a certain Elon Musk admitted to such on TV if we remember.
It's been known that the federal E-Verify program is an effectively useless system that "verifies" people that aren't actually allowed to work. That's the minimum required by law in most places.
Given the fact that officers get fired for insane shit and then just move elsewhere and do the same job again... I'm 100% willing to believe that's the extent of what many police departments do, not full background checks.
"So you lost your last job for brutally beating a suspect who turned out to be the wrong guy? Well, you're going to fit in nicely around here! Welcome aboard!"
These are the same people who view terrible disciplinary records when fired from a different agency a few municipalities over and hire them anyway.
They are highly paid thugs... that is ALL they are.