Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a police officer in a Chicago suburb Thursday, who they say is in the country illegally after overstaying his visa.
Radule Bojovic was “encountered during a targeted enforcement action” during ICE’s “Operation Midway Blintz,” which has targeted immigrants living illegally in Illinois because of the state’s sanctuary policies. Bojovic worked as a police officer in Hanover Park, a suburb about 35 miles west of Chicago.
The Department of Homeland Security said that Bojovic, who is originally from Montenegro, has been in the U.S. illegally for a decade after overstaying a tourist visa that expired in 2015.
The Hanover Park Police Department posted a photo in August congratulating Bojovic on graduating from the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy.
In August, Bojovic began “an intensive 15 weeks of field training and evaluation as he continues preparing to serve the Hanover Park community,” according to the post.
Bojovic is just one of over 1,500 people who have been arrested in “Operation Midway Blintz,” the latest operation as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“Radule Bojovic violated our nation’s laws and was living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years — what kind of police department gives criminal illegal aliens badges and guns? It’s a felony for aliens to even possess a firearm. A law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem ICE is restoring law and order. Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces,” she added.
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