In solidly blue Illinois, members of the state’s conservative Freedom Caucus are harshly criticizing the reinstatement of a non-citizen as a police officer who was recently arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement.
On Oct. 15, ICE arrested Radule Bojovic, an alleged “illegal alien from Montenegro who was recently sworn in as a police officer in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park.”
The Department of Homeland Security alleged that “Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart the U.S. on March 31, 2015. Over a decade later, he was still illegally in the U.S.”
After being released on bond Oct. 31, Bojovic went back to work for the Hanover Park police department, per Fox 32 Chicago.
Now, conservative legislators in the state’s Freedom Caucus are calling for action.
“You have a situation where a non-citizen is here with arrest powers over the citizenry of the folks here in the state of Illinois, and this is something that we cannot stand for,” Rep. Adam Niemerg told The Daily Signal. “We’re having a full investigation with the DOJ, with ICE enforcement, with my Freedom Caucus colleagues and myself, and we’re going to get to the bottom of what’s going on.”
“This popped up, and we’ve been kind of trying to chase down the details and so we FOIA’d [filed Freedom of Information Act requests] to try to find out—we haven’t got this back yet—but we’ve tried to uncover the employment documents. Did he lie about his status? There’s more questions than we have answers right now,” state Rep. Chris Miller told The Daily Signal.
