U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday the arrest of a rookie officer of the Hanover Park Police Department, a northwest suburb of Chicago, who is accused of being undocumented.
Montenegrin-born Radule Bojovic was detained Wednesday during a targeted immigration raid as part of Operation Midway Blitz, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.
ICE detains Illinois police officer
Radule Bojovic entered the U.S. on a B-2 tourist visa in 2015 and remained unauthorized in the country.
The immigrant was serving his 15 weeks of field training, according to a Facebook post by Hanover Park police.
It is unclear how the police officer managed to pass the security checks required by the department to be hired and trained.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem used Bojovic’s arrest to attack Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, who has refused to deploy the National Guard in his state and in the city of Chicago.
Kristi Noem also charged against the state’s sanctuary laws that protect undocumented immigrants.
For her part, DHS Undersecretary Tricia McLaughlin accused – in a statement – the Hanover Park Police Department for giving a badge to “criminal illegal immigrants” by replicating President Donald Trump’s rhetoric of criminalizing all undocumented immigrants.
McLaughlin called it a “felony” for an undocumented person to possess a firearm.
“A law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law,” he added.
Last September, ICE agents arrested Ian Andre Roberts, superintendent of the Des Moines school district, the largest in Iowa, on charges that he had been in the country illegally since the turn of the century.
Subsequently, the superintendent, a native of Guyana, was charged with other firearms-related offenses.
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With information from EFE
