ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro.

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

The Hanover Park Police Department shared a Facebook post in August announcing Bojovic’s recent graduation from the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy, adding that he had started “an intensive 15 weeks of field training and evaluation as he continues preparing to serve the Hanover Park community.”

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    2 days ago

    “Radule Bojovic violated our nation’s laws and was living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years—what kind of police department gives criminal illegal aliens badges and guns? It’s a felony for aliens to even possess a firearm. A law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin

    That’s how far America is straying from the Rule of Law: this guy has not been found to be illegally in the United States by a Court of Law. As a result, he is not living ILLEGALLY in the United States and is not a criminal. An Assistant Secretary to the Department of Homeland Security should know this, and would have known this in any past Administration of the United States of America.

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      15 hours ago

      Gotta love the all caps. It’s like red hat, you can just tell by the unnecessary all caps and the accusatory manner of writing.

      Anyway, I wonder when the cops will turn on ICE? They’re getting gassed and now getting singled out too. Gotta be a rough choice between beating up minorities yourself and being ok with ICE doing it to you too.

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        They’re not, because words mean things. Criminal cops are criminals, other cops are just cops.

        Just because you don’t like them doesn’t make them criminals.

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      2 days ago

      See… what you did wrong, was…. You used that logic thing from the past. We don’t do that ‘round these parts anymore.