Department of Justice Fines Sheriff Department for Hiring Only US Citizens

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In a sharp illustration of how the federal government refuses to play by the same rules as everyone

else, the Denver Sheriff’s Department has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine for making U.S. citizenship a qualification for being hired as a deputy sheriff.

The eight-page settlement agreement was signed by Sheriff Patrick Firman and Alberto Ruisanchez, the deputy special counsel in the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department.

The Sheriff’s Department agreed to not only pay the $10,000 fine, but agreed to go through all job applications received from noncitizens after Jan. 1, 2015, and offer them the “opportunity to complete the application/evaluation process for the deputy sheriff position” with “no consideration” of their citizenship status.

One of the sillier requirements in the settlement agreement is that the Sheriff’s Department post “an English and Spanish version of the Office of Special Counsel ‘If You Have the Right to Work’ poster … in all places where notices to employees and job applicants are normally posted” and also to provide a copy of the poster in the “applicant’s preferred language.” You can see that poster in Arabic here.

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Were I the Sheriff, I would have told Obama’s DOJ to stuff it and refused to pay the fine stating the 10th amendment and jurisdictional limitations of the Federal government versus the states as the reason why. By the time it goes through the resultant court processes, there would be a new Trump DOJ leadership in place.

The Dept of Injustice under the all time worst presidents in american history hoeful trump with streigheten things out and end this PC nonsense