Illinois passed legislation a couple of years ago to allow illegals non-citizens to become cops in our state. New Mexico passed a similar law in recent days and they’re planning to implement it. Who cares about federal law related to illegals possessing firearms.
From The Daily Caller:
A recent Democratic-backed law in New Mexico seeks to solve the state’s rampant crime problem and shortage of cops by letting foreign nationals become police officers.
Hey, here’s an idea… instead of allowing foreigners to become cops, why don’t we simply increase the pay for police officers. Supply and demand will sort it out. If you set a starting wage at $100,000 I have no doubt you will get qualified applicants. Lots of qualified applicants. If $100,000 doesn’t do it, try $150,000. And a $50k first-year signing bonus that new cops get after completing their first year. Sure, you’ll have to hike existing cops’ salaries, but that’s what you have to do when you need good people.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on April 7 signed Senate Bill 364, which opens the door for anyone with a federal work permit to serve as a cop. In 2024 alone, the Biden administration issued over two million new work permits to non-citizens — many through hotly debated parole programs with major oversight flaws.
Translation: We don’t have a clue who they are.
Over the last several years, New Mexico has experienced an exodus of cops and a spike in crime, something Las Cruces Police Chief Jeremy Story attributes to the anti-police sentiment stemming from the George Floyd riots.
“That’s an objective fact. You look at our application numbers over time, you can look at state police, Albuquerque or even Portland. It has a lot to do with the environment or the climate around policing especially from 2020 on,” he told the Las Cruces Bulletin.
New Mexico has the highest rate of violent crime in America and the lowest percentage of violent crimes that are solved.
Pretty sure Illinois’ biggest city has New Mexico beat. And pretty sure it’s largely larger cities in New Mexico that have the serious crime problem.
There is some push-back, but the governor doesn’t care. Heck, she suspending the Second Amendment in one city a couple of years ago. Sure, courts struck it down but still.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an organization that supports stricter immigration laws, argues that allowing illegal non-citizens to become police officers is not a reasonable solution to these problems.
“It is illogical to place people who are violating our laws in a position of enforcing laws against others,” FAIR spokesman Ira Mehlman said in a statement to the DCNF.
Mehlman also pointed out that federal law “prohibits illegal aliens from possessing firearms, which law enforcement officer must carry.”
Governor Lujan doesn’t care about the laws. She does what she wants.
However, even though non-citizens who become law enforcement officers in New Mexico will presumably now be in a position to carry a firearm, Grisham had previously suspended Second Amendment rights in the state.
See above.
In 2023, she issued an executive order banning citizens from carrying guns in Albuquerque that even David Hogg opposed. The executive order expired in 2024.
One of the bill’s main proponents argued it would address the state’s police shortage.
Address it by hiking salaries, instead of depressing salaries by hiring illegals.
It’s the culture of disdain and excoriation by the public and politicians while at the same time swallowing every “wolf cookie” the criminal element comes along with. Until that changes, lots-o-luck in finding (legal) “good people” for the job, regardless of financial offers.