Ohio Sheriff Says Immigration Visas Too Confusing For Cops; Asks Trump, Musk To Change Them.
Ohio Sheriff Says Immigration Visas Too Confusing For Cops; Asks Trump, Musk To Change Them.
(Disclosure: It's my blog post)
The sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, one Richard K. Jones, who gives “Yosemite Sam meets diabeetus,” legit wrote a letter to DJT — cc’d to Elon, no less — saying that immigration visas were “too confusing” for local law enforcement. I wasn’t joking about his look.
Then held a Facebook Live/press conference to… apparently brag about how unintelligent he thinks law enforcement is.
Of course, behind the cringe is the simple fact that we’re looking at a bully who is so unintelligent that he has to ask who the “bad guys” are. A bully who knows who the bigger bullies are, and thinks that there is absolutely nothing wrong with displaying both his lack of intelligence and his willingness to bully others to the public at large.
And judging by the comments on his post, he’s sadly right.
They already have a solution for this already implemented. If you're not a citizen, you have to carry identification that shows you are allowed to be here. It's what is called your green card (though it's not green). Not carrying it is already punishable by anything from a hefty fee to deportation. All legal immigrants already know this. Citizens (naturalized or not) do not need to carry papers (yet).
If they can read a driver's license, they can read a green card.
So... Cops want to act like ICE (which is not currently allowed judging by the challenges to the Texas law regarding that) but are too dumb? Or are they just trying to invalidate all current visas ahead of the mass deportations I hear are on the horizon?
No idea about visas and their nomenclature, but this can't be all that hard to resolve with computers that everyone has in their pocket today? Also why would police even involve itself into cheking validity or conditions of specific visas?
If you have an interaction with someone with a visa it help if you can tell if the visa is legit. And if the paper one is all you have because the person can't/won't access a digital version (idk if that's even a thing) then that's all you have to work with.
Agreed, for me it feels as these problems mostly stem from lack of universal id in US, as in modern ones that have all information on them.
Who cares about the guy's look he's asking to streamline a process. Odds are nobody else will listen because he's just a Sheriff so he's asking someone who just might get the ball rolling.
Anyone in government knows that the only thing worse than the paperwork is trying to change something. I can't blame him for trying.