Illegal Immigrant Works Years As Police Officer

In a programme that raises questions most how topical accumulation enforcement agencies man candidates to “serve and protect’ communities, an banned immigrant with a stolen indistinguishability spent eld as an tar in Alaska’s maximal personnel department.

The unlikely tale is reminiscent of a similar case in river a some eld ago. An illegal outlander utilised the indistinguishability of his cousin, a deceased dweller citizen, to work as an tar in the Milwaukee Police Department for fivesome eld before getting caught.

Incredibly, this has also occurred at the federal level. A some eld past the U.S. Border Patrol unconcealed that an agent (Oscar Antonio Ortiz) had utilised a fraudulent birth credential to tie the Homeland Security agency. The blunder was unconcealed after Ortiz got busted for smuggling man Mexicans into the U.S. in his polity vehicle.

In the Alaska case, an banned immigrant from Mexico (Rafael Mora-Lopez) prototypal worked as a city charabanc utility for six eld before joining the metropolis Police Department, where he spent another six eld as a lawman before getting caught recently. This month he pleaded blameable to federal charges for passport humbug and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.

As a longtime Alaska resident, Mora-Lopez composed nearly $30,000 in dividends issued to jural land residents from lubricator profits. He also voted in topical and national elections with his assumed indistinguishability and utilised it to bring his forthcoming spouse to Alaska from Mexico and help her obtain U.S. citizenship.

Incredibly, Anchorage’s personnel chief defends the banned outlander who duped his agency, saying that he was a “good tar eliminate for the fact he was impersonating someone else.” A topical programme scheme place joined the chief this week, pointing out that Mora-Lopez was a “successful and well-liked APD tar who had worked as a charabanc utility before becoming a cop.”

In the same story, the Alaska Dispatch criticizes the lack of welfare in what could be a fascinating story of one family’s efforts to make a newborn chronicle in the U.S. and how they worked around immigration policy and finished polity bureaucracy. “Mora-Lopez parlayed his newborn indistinguishability into a pretty good vision of the dweller Dream,” the example says.