The Only Ones illegal enough

From The Washington Post:

MILWAUKEE -- Fellow Milwaukee police officers knew him as Jose Morales.

But after an anonymous phone tip this winter, an investigation revealed that the Morales in question is actually dead, and the officer is a cousin, Oscar Ayala-Cornejo, 24. He is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had assumed Morales's identity as a high school student in 1999.

In court papers filed June 15, Ayala-Cornejo agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony charge of falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen. Under the plea agreement, he will face six to 12 months in jail. The charges can carry up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Ayala-Cornejo has agreed to leave the United States after his jail term. A sentencing date has not been set.

He was just arresting the criminals that American police won't arrest.

And this week's "No Shit Sherlock" award goes to John Balcerzak:

John Balcerzak, president of the Milwaukee Police Association labor union, said the incident shows that the department should beef up its background-check process.

Of course the Latino community is not happy about this. No, they are not upset that a member of their race broke federal law by lying to the police department and gaining employment under false pretences. An act which endangered the lives and safety of the community by leaving him open to blackmail by any criminal(s) - like MS-13, for example - who discovered his secret.

What has the Latino community's underwear in a bunch is the fact that there is such a concept in American law as an "illegal alien":

Latino leaders note that working under someone else's identity is common practice for many of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

"Their personhood is not recognized since they don't have the right piece of paper, but they're working and they're not harming anyone," said Arnaldo Garcia, enforcement and justice program coordinator of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. "It's very typical that a citizen daughter would lend her Social Security number to her mother so she can work or cousins would use the same driver's license if they look alike. The problem is that the system is set up to criminalize people for working."

Here's a clue for Senor Garcia. We do not criminalize people for working. We criminalize people for violating the sovereignty of our nation by entering without our permission and we criminalize the theft of another's identity and we criminalize seeking government employment under false pretenses.

Of course not everyone in this town is an idiot:

But Albert Kroll, 72, a retired school board member washing the sidewalk near the church, said Ayala-Cornejo and his brother should face consequences. "They were both wrong," he said. "It's amazing that his brother was a police officer and said nothing."

Yes, but his brother's loyalty was not to the department or the town or the nation. It was to his family and his race. Well, that may not be entirely accurate. If he is like the majority of Mexicans in this country he thinks of Mexico as his true home and it is to Mexico that he gives his true alliance. So this could have been pure patriotism on the brother's part.

Balcerzak said the department could suffer consequences.

"This is going to mushroom and cause problems down the road because even when you issue a citation you're swearing everything in it is true and correct," he said.

"Since he wasn't even who he said he was, that could cause all sorts of problems. Luckily, he hadn't been an officer for that long."

There might be an upside to this after all. The ACLU could implode from the moral conflict. After all they can claim that the illegal officer was lying and therefore committing perjury every time he testified in court, signed an arrest report or citation or requested a warrant.

That means that they could potentially get some criminals out of jail or even just cost the department a chunk of its budget by refunding fines and court costs to all the people this illegal cop wrote tickets to. But to do that they would have to affirm the laws against illegal entry to the country and the laws against hiring illegals. As I said, a fatal moral conflict for moonbats like the ACLU.

And since this is a story from Milwaukee it would not be complete without the views of bar patrons:

At a South Milwaukee bar, feelings were mixed.

"If he could sneak into the force, how many others could sneak in?" asked machinist Victor Rivera, 53. "Why didn't the people who interviewed him make a better investigation of who he really was?"

"This guy was working to support his family," countered Faustino Lopez Aleman, 54, who works in housing rehabilitation. "If he was a good policeman, he shouldn't be punished. Think of all the corrupt police who get nothing done, and they're still on the force."

Here is a clue for Senor Lopez Aleman. If he is in the country illegally he is a criminal. If he stole an identity to get his job he is a criminal. If you are a criminal you are not a "good policeman" even if you have all the skills and talents needed to make one a good policeman.

I leave you with a question. If the Milwaukee PD couldn't figure out that this guy was illegal with all the time in the world to conduct his background check then how are we going to find out if the illegals applying for Z Visas have committed crimes since they have been here (other than the crime they committed by coming here and staying here, anyway) with only 24 hours to do a background check?