“Eliminating this unlawful citizenship requirement will help ensure that the Denver Sheriff Department hires the best and most qualified individuals to protect and serve.”
Denver County’s sheriff office has been slapped with a fine by the Department of Justice (DOJ) because it refused to hire non-citizens as deputies.
From the beginning of 2015 through last March, the Denver Sheriff Department went on a major hiring binge, adding more than 200 new deputies. But those jobs ended up only going to citizens, because the department made citizenship a stated requirement on the job application. The department admitted as much in a new settlement with the U.S. government, which requires it to pay a $10,000 fine.
The department will also have to comb through all of its job applications from the past two years, identifying immigrants who were excluded from the hiring process and giving them due consideration.
“Eliminating this unlawful citizenship requirement will help ensure that the Denver Sheriff Department hires the best and most qualified individuals to protect and serve,” DOJ Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta said in a statement. “The entire community will benefit from these reforms.”
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12 comments:
If they are here legally, fine. If they are here illegally, arrest them at the interview!
Jan. 21st can't get here fast enough!
Don't ever want to see or hear from it ever again
I want the people enforcing OUR laws to be citizens of OUR country, not somebody else's. Get off my boat, Obama!
Unbelievable
This is what you get when you appoint law breakers to the DOJ. I remind people that Obama is not above the law. Denver will sue and win this one.
Is it possible for liberals to get any dumber? What if the so called qualified person is a muslim and they decide the only valid laws are shria law, won't that be nice having some guy riding around carrying a badge arresting everybody except some guy he sees building pressure cooker bombs.
Time to Drain the Swamp!
Absolutely disgusting.
The Justice Department cannot force another law agency to break the law by hiring illegals. What lunacy! Just drag it out until Inauguration Day.
I agree w/ the thoughts on here but where's the outrage about blocking obama s over time... u cant find more then 3 on that...
232, huh?
Gupta,sounds like a Harvard University lib lawyer 2 me. Just saying.
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