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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
Police departments across the country are getting desperate to hire due to chronic understaffing and elevated burnout. Earlier this month, the Seattle Police Department became the latest major law enforcement agency to open recruiting to illegal aliens, and if hired, these new cops will end up having more gun rights than everyday Americans.
Under this new hiring policy, illegal aliens protected from deportation under the Obama-era DACA program will be eligible to apply. Of course, should these aspiring officers pass the training academy, they will be sworn to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and empowered with the full authority of the law, including the authority to arrest, execute warrants, and carry service weapons.
Many readers may not be aware that a series of federal laws exist that exempt active and retired police officers from state and local gun control laws when carrying off-duty and in restricted areas. This can include the right to carry in many gun-free zones and exempt them from bans on certain firearms and certain magazines. On top of that, House Republicans just passed a bill to further expand these rights to carry for current and retired cops on certain public lands and in many federal buildings.
While it sounds like a great idea at first glance, there’s a serious constitutional question that’s being ignored: Why should a certain class of people be given special rights that all Americans can’t enjoy—especially when that class of individuals may now include illegal aliens?
While cops can carry nationwide thanks to these federal protections, this right should be afforded to all Americans under the Second Amendment. Every hardworking, law-abiding citizen deserves to be able to exercise their rights and be able to defend themselves without fear of prosecution for crossing an imaginary line or for carrying a magazine capable of carrying “too many” rounds.
Some will argue “they have training” or “they’ve demonstrated responsibility,” but those are not pre-requisites in a free country for free people to exercise their rights. Just this week the U.S. Supreme Court flatly rejected an argument by the Department of Justice that a lack of “responsibility” can be enough to disarm someone.
For local officials to greenlight the hiring of people who aren’t citizens, to be vested with the authority to arrest and use force against Americans, is antithetical to our founding. Moreover, it’s even more damning when those same officeholders fight to keep Americans from being able to exercise their Second Amendment rights that our founders so wisely and eloquently fought to ensure and guarantee.
Of course, hiring illegal aliens wouldn’t even be an issue if burnout wasn’t so high among active cops, but these same local officials are usually to blame for that too. When local lawmakers, mayors, and prosecutors choose to de-prioritize the prosecution of real crime – as is wholly the case in Seattle and Los Angeles – it’s inevitable that law enforcement gets drained. Who wants to serve and protect when the bad guys are walking out shortly after going in, including for violent offenses where a firearm was used?
This is not a piece arguing for the end of legal immigration, as many, including this author’s family, have lawfully come to this great nation with a desire to serve in our armed forces or on our streets as law enforcement officers. Many would agree that some of the very best freedom-loving Americans come from foreign lands, often where freedom is treated as a crime.
Regardless, it’s ironic and hypocritical that anti-gun jurisdictions like Seattle and Los Angeles are empowering non-citizens to enforce tyrannical gun laws against Americans, all while they themselves will be granted full exemption from the very gun laws they’re enforcing. Let that sink in.
The State of Washington only recognizes carry permits from ten other states, meaning an American hailing from the forty others cannot bring his or her firearm and carry for their protection—unless of course they’re a cop.
Politicians and political insiders often quip over why the American public distrusts those in office. This example of restricting Americans from exercising their inalienable rights while granting a carve out for non-citizens is a glaring example.
Luis Valdes is a national spokesman and the Florida State Director for Gun Owners of America, a “no-compromise” grassroots lobbying organization with over 2 million members nationwide. He is a former law enforcement officer and detective.
So now illegal Aliens have 2nd Amendment Rights?! Just shows the Treason of Biden the UN/CFR, Globalists and the DNC
Seattle was a great place back in the 90s when I lived there. Now it seems like a citywide insane asylum.
Second only to San Francisco that used to be a great city. Now a big S-Hole
True, Seattle is a true cesspool.
We lived 57 years in the burbs there. We finally got out when my husband’s employer said get the vax or no job. We finally retired and got out of Dodge in our early 80s two years ago.
Loved it when Amazon announced they were leaving Seattle for Bellevue, Redmond, & Kirkland.
Can’t be certain but the Latinos replacing our roof 2005 after Katrina damaged it did a good job except for the three leaks that have since then been found with stains on our ceiling.. Were they illegal aliens? Who knows? We needed roof repair.
Blow me assholes
Did mom stop? She might need to rest, and brush her teeth?
BEFORE FJB turns into Weekend at Bernie’s, he’s going to grant full amnesty to 30-40 MILLION ILLEGALS to give the Democrat Machine time to help them with their paperwork and to fill out THEIR VOTER REGISTRATION! With those new numbers, they’ll win every race giving the Democrats their American Dream: ONE-PARTY RULE!
BUT… CONSIDER THIS: As a traveler to Mexico and Central America, I see lots of filled churches even there is no mass. Their religious holidays last a few days. Some a week during Christmas with nightly masses and then processions of hundreds in the streets. On Christmas Eve, thousands with firecrackers strung up on all the intersections and when the parade reaches it, they go off. Then back to the Plaza.
ALSO: MANY HAVE DEALT WITH COMMUNIST DICTATORS and flee those countries. The influx from El Salvador began when Obama met with the COMMUNIST FMLN PRESIDENT! (During the ’80s, the Democrats, CPUSA/PEACE FRONTS, and universities, were raising funds for the FMLN rebels. Many “disappeared” BUT TO HERE! The FMLN won the Presidency in 2009 and Hillary was the highest-ranking U.S. official at the inauguration. Then OBAMA VISITS… IT BEGAN!) NEW MEXICO was the first Sanctuary State starting in 1986 by Gov. Toney Anaya, a Communist DUPE!
WHO AIDED, INSTALLED, PROTECTED THESE COMMUNIST DICTATORS like Communist Sandinista Daniel Ortega still ruling Nicaragua since 1979 and who arrests ALL OPPONENTS? YES, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
MY POINT: REPUBLICANS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, NEED TO EXPOSE THE DEMOCRATS AIDING THE DICTATORS AND THE REASON ILLEGALS ARE FLEELING THEIR COUNTRIES! “The Democrats are DIABLOS Y COMUNISTAS Y MARXISTAS! They are EVIL and will turn you into MODERN DAY SLAVES getting low wages for very hard work and you speak up and don’t like it, they’ll tell you to go back to Mexico! The Democrats are the Party of Slavery and the KKK! THEY USE YOU BUT THEY REALLY HATE YOU! (They know that one!) ALL THEY WANT IS YOUR VOTE AND THEY’LL THROW YOU OUT LIKE THEY DO TO BLACKS! ASK ANY ONE OF THEM! VOTE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY CARE FOR YOU AND WANT YOU TO ADVANCE…. REPUBLICANS!”
I got news for you pal, in case you haven’t heard, the love of money is stronger than the love of country. The love and worship of money trumps everything.
Despite any rhetoric to the contrary, they’re all in it for the money. And there’s nothing special about republicans either. They’re as equally greedy and corrupt as their democrat rivals. Proof? RINOs and neocons. Need I go into details? QED.
Let’s not leave aside the love of power, too.
Back in 1970, the Personnel Screening Unit of the NYPD wouldn’t even consider an applicant if he/she wasn’t a US citizen. Not a “green card” holder, and surely not anyone less than a US citizen, would be considered for appointment.
The very thought of an illegal alien being hired to the police is abhorrent. It’s bad enough that the armed forces accepts “green card” holders.
Does this remind anyone else of an incident near Boston in 1775? It surely brings back memories to me.