Are law enforement officers legal citizens?

Question

Can an illegal citizen or undocumented person join a police force or sheriff's office in the US.

Answer 1

No you must be a legal citizen.

Answer 2

as the three little pigs would say not by the hair of my chiny chin chin

Answer 3

Illegal and undocumented?  NO.  Illegal is illegal.  How can someone like that represent the law if they are breaking it?

Answer 4

I worked for an agency who had a resident alien working for them a short time.

Answer 5

I Dohn theenk so.  Vamanos arriba arriba onda le a la frontera!

Answer 6

Yes to the first question.  No to the second.

Answer 7

usually law enforcement does extensive background checks so I will say no

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

At least in my state any permanent legal resident can be the police. You do not have to be a citizen. So if you are an alien with a proper green card you can be the police. In my station alone we have Philippinoes, Polish, Mexican, Honduran, English, Ecuadorean, Indian, Pakistani officers and I'm sure some others I don't know about. They are all sworn officers.

As far as illegal aliens, no.

Answer 10

Does the term ILLEGAL mean anything to you?  Anybody who is doing something ILLEGAL is not exactly a perfect candidate now.

Answer 11

with the ways that things are going with illegal  citizens they won't have a problem getting any kind of a law enforcement job