Seattle has become the latest Dem-run city trying to replace an exodus of police officers with illegal migrants.
Washington’s largest city has just 913 cops to serve its 750,000 people after losing 725 officers in the last five years.
Now its police department has tweaked the rules to allow applications from migrants who crossed the border illegally as children and are registered on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), or ‘Dreamers’, program.
And under a law change signed by Democrat Governor Jay Inslee in February they can be chosen above an equally qualified candidate if they speak more than one language.
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More than 500,000 people in the US registered under the Obama-era DACA program before it was rescinded by Donald Trump in 2017.
While they are allowed to work in the US under a renewable two-year work permit, restrictions on carrying firearms had previously barred them from police work.
But in a memo last year the Justice Department stated that ‘DACA recipients can possess duty firearms and possess ammunition as part of their official law enforcement officer duties’.
Seattle Police previously restricted applications to those who ‘hold a United States citizenship, OR have legal permanent residency in the US,’ but updated its LinkedIn page last week.
‘The Seattle Police Department is now accepting applications from DACA recipients,’ it reads.
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On May 29 police chief Adrian Diaz became the latest to leave the department amid allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination.
It came months after retiring officer released a scathing resignation letter accusing him of ‘failed leadership’ that ‘accelerated this city’s downhill slide straight to rock bottom.’
‘Your controlling, bullying, and gaslighting tendencies have wreaked havoc on this department, driving away talented and dedicated officers,’ Lieutenant Jessica Taylor wrote as she left after 23 years.
‘People are getting hurt and killed in this city, left and right,’ she added.
‘I bet most of the citizens of Seattle would love to be able to walk outside at night or mosey into downtown Seattle and not be afraid.
‘But they can’t, and that’s your fault. You’ve failed them. You’ve failed us.’
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More drama enveloped the department on Monday night he came out as ‘a gay Latino man’ in an interview with a local radio station.
‘I want to make sure people understand who I am,’ he told KTTH 770 AM.
‘It’s not easy when you have some false allegations against you. I don’t want to have any secrets if I decide to go to another city.’
Joe Biden promised last week to ease access to work visas for DACA recipients who have earned a degree from a US college or university, and received a high-skilled job offer, and he urged Congress to give them permanent status.
‘Give me a break,’ he said at a meeting of Hispanic power brokers in the White House Rose Garden.
‘These have been model citizens. Congress has to act. We are a nation of immigrants and we shouldn’t forget it.’
Seattle is not the first city to consider DACA program migrants as police officers after Illinois, Colorado and California passed laws to allow them to apply for law enforcement jobs.
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She arrived from Mexico as an eight-year-old in 2005 and was inspired to become a police officer after witnessing the compassionate approach of an officer who helped her after a car crash.
‘Even if it looks hard or impossible, never give up,’ she said as she was sworn in. One day it will come to you. Keep fighting for it.
‘If one door closes, keep knocking. Keep knocking. It’s going to open.’
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