{"id":2007719,"date":"2023-08-22T03:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T07:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-j-b-pritzker-welcomes-hostile-foreign-spies-into-illinois-police-force\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T07:22:16","slug":"gov-j-b-pritzker-welcomes-hostile-foreign-spies-into-illinois-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-j-b-pritzker-welcomes-hostile-foreign-spies-into-illinois-police-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. J.B. Pritzker invites foreign spies to join Illinois&#8217; police."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-j-b-pritzker-welcomes-hostile-foreign-spies-into-illinois-police-force%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>An Invitation to Hostile Powers<\/h2>\n<p>Imagine this nightmare\u200d scenario. An American citizen walking\u2064 on American streets is arrested, detained,\u2062 and questioned by a police \u2064officer who \u200dserves a hostile foreign government such as China, Russia, or Iran. The foreign \u200ccop might be \u200ba spy\u2063 charged with keeping track of U.S.-based persons of interest on behalf of his government. This spy, who\u200d doubles \u200das an American cop, has the power to act under\u200b American law, investigate U.S. residents, and even use lethal force, should he\u200c see fit.<\/p>\n<p>This\u200c might read like\u200b a dystopian novel about the\u2062 collapse of American society. But this scenario is\u200c now legal\u2063 under Illinois law, \u200bas it \u2064is in a \u200dhandful of \u200dother states. Illinois Gov.\u200c J.B. \u2064Pritzker created\u2064 the possibility for \u200cforeign spies to join the Illinois\u2062 police force with his signature on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/billstatus.asp?DocNum=3751&#038;GAID=17&#038;GA=103&#038;DocTypeID=HB&#038;LegID=149009&#038;SessionID=112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Bill 3751<\/a>, a \u200bbill ostensibly intended\u200d to mitigate Illinois\u2019 police recruiting crisis.<\/p>\n<h3>Previous \u2064Illinois \u2064law required \u200dIllinois police officers to be American citizens.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/fulltext.asp?DocName=&#038;SessionId=112&#038;GA=103&#038;DocTypeId=HB&#038;DocNum=3751&#038;GAID=17&#038;LegID=149009&#038;SpecSess=&#038;Session=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H.B. 3751<\/a> allows foreign citizens who hold an American green card \u200dto become police,\u2064 along with \u200cindividuals who came into America \u200billegally as\u200c children and have since received \u200cfederal protection for Deferred Action for \u2064Childhood Arrivals (DACA).<\/p>\n<p>As America\u2019s\u200d proxy conflict with \u200cRussia grinds through its second \u200byear in Ukraine, China simultaneously inches toward initiating a conflict with the U.S. in the western Pacific,\u200b and Iran saber rattles in the Persian Gulf,\u2064 Illinois \u200bpolicymakers decided to open law enforcement to Russian, Chinese, \u200cand Iranian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Exploiting this opportunity could quickly\u2063 become a new initiative for countries like China. \u2062The Department of Justice recently accused Chinese\u200c intelligence assets of running an\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-arrest-two-men-for-running-illegal-overseas-police-station-for-communist-china-in-nyc-doj\/\" title=\"Feds Arrest Two Men For Running \u2018Illegal Overseas Police Station\u2019 For Communist China In NYC: DOJ\">illegal overseas police station<\/a> in New York this year and \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/two-arrested-operating-illegal-overseas-police-station-chinese-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested two Chinese \u200dagents<\/a> for the alleged \u2062crime. The agents acted illegally in a\u200d police capacity to harass Chinese dissidents in New York. If\u200b Chinese\u2062 citizens become cops in Illinois, then the same would \u200chappen to Chinese dissidents \u2064in Illinois.<\/p>\n<h2>Incoherence in \u2064the Law<\/h2>\n<p>The new law both allows\u2062 and disallows DACA recipients from becoming police. DACA is a status \u2064conferred\u2064 upon\u2062 between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2017\/09\/25\/key-facts-about-unauthorized-immigrants-enrolled-in-daca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">600,000 and 800,000<\/a> migrants who entered the country illegally as children. The \u200dIllinois law specifically \u2062authorizes DACA recipients to apply for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-dem-voted-to-cut-law-enforcement-jobs-amid-concerns-of-cartel-violence\/\" title=\"Texas Dem Voted To Cut Law Enforcement Jobs Amid Concerns of Cartel Violence\">law enforcement positions<\/a> but requires that they are authorized to own a gun\u200b under federal law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal law<\/a> prohibits DACA recipients\u2063 from \u200cowning a \u200dfirearm. Courts have consistently \u200bruled that DACA recipients \u200bare ineligible to own guns under federal law, and some DACA recipients\u2062 have\u2063 even been <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/assets\/db\/15301375586740.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convicted under federal law for owning firearms<\/a>.\u200d Thus, Illinois\u2019 new law opened police work to DACA recipients \u2063with one clause and then denied\u200c it to them with the\u2064 next clause.<\/p>\n<p>The larger expansion of law enforcement eligibility goes\u2063 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-biden-immigration-orders-seek-to-reverse-trumps-policies-streamline-naturalization-process\/\" title=\"New Biden Immigration Orders Seek To Reverse Trump\u2019s Policies, Streamline Naturalization Process\">green card holders<\/a>\u200c who are eligible to own a \u2062gun under federal law. This qualifies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atf.gov\/firearms\/qa\/may-aliens-legally-united-states-purchase-firearms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most green card holders<\/a>. This\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-j-b-pritzker-welcomes-hostile-foreign-spies-into-illinois-police-force\/\" title=\"Gov. J.B. Pritzker invites foreign spies to join Illinois' police.\">newly eligible \u200cgroup undoubtedly includes foreign spies<\/a>, and Illinois\u2019 law \u200bmakes no\u2064 attempt \u2062to mitigate this\u200c problem. \u2062China\u2019s 2017 National\u2064 Intelligence\u2063 Law requires all Chinese citizens to spy\u200d on behalf of China (read: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-59595952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">genocidal<\/a> Communist Party of China).<\/p>\n<p>The Department \u2062of Homeland Security\u2064 estimates there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-10\/2022_0920_plcy_lawful_permenent_resident_population_estimate_2022_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">12.88 million legal permanent residents<\/a> in the \u2062U.S. as of 2022, \u200dwith\u2064 more than 500,000 of them counted as Illinoisans. Notably, more than 800,000 green card holders are citizens of the People\u2019s \u2063Republic of China, a country\u200b whose leader openly and frequently \u200cgives speeches implying he might launch a war against Taiwan and the U.S. in the\u2062 Pacific. Analysts who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org\/events\/china-prepares-war-timeline-miles-yu-kyle-bass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">look beyond Chinese President\u2063 Xi Jinping\u2019s words<\/a> find that he is, \u200din fact, \u200cpreparing for war.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois law enforcement officers \u200b <a href=\"http:\/\/directives.chicagopolice.org\/forms\/CPD-62.153.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swear an oath<\/a> to uphold the United States and Illinois Constitutions. Such \u2062an\u200c oath, if meaningfully taken, would \u2062likely be interpreted by Chinese\u2063 authorities as an act of treason against \u200dChina, where the prospective officer \u200dmore \u200dthan likely has family\u200b who can be leveraged.<\/p>\n<p>So under what \u200cconditions would \u200cthe Chinese Communist Party feel sanguine about a Chinese citizen becoming a cop in Illinois? None that Illinoisans should\u200c be OK with.<\/p>\n<h2>Chinese Espionage on\u200b the Rise<\/h2>\n<p>A few clarifying\u2063 events occurred in the week that\u200b Pritzker was trumpeting his new law.<\/p>\n<p>First,\u200b China\u2019s Ministry of State Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-wants-mobilise-entire-nation-counter-espionage-2023-08-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced a new program<\/a> to require all Chinese citizens to\u2064 work in \u2064counterintelligence\u2063 on behalf of \u200btheir government. \u200dThat announcement came on the \u200cvery day Pritzker tweeted criticisms at DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>Then, two American\u200c naval\u200d servicemen of Chinese descent were <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/espionage-us-navy-arrests-national-security-china-b81514864f8cab253b4d29caa3594a72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested and charged with \u200bpassing U.S. military secrets to \u2063PRC officials<\/a>. To top it off, a Chinese company was declared to be running\u2062 an illegal\u200b lab in California equipped with 1,000 mice that were genetically engineered to carry diseases such as Covid, malaria, and\u2063 E. coli. \u2062Specimens of HIV, hepatitis, and\u2063 herpes were also found \u200bat the lab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/fbi-director-wray-says-scale-chinese-spying-us-blew-away-rcna14369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI Director Chris\u2064 Wray<\/a> has testified that learning of the scale of Chinese\u2063 spying in America \u201cblew him away,\u201d and \u2063that his\u2063 agency opens a new\u200d counterintelligence operation on China \u2063every 12 hours, with 2,000 \u2064such cases currently open.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state-owned enterprises are responsible\u2063 for manufacturing the lion\u2019s share\u2062 of fentanyl that floods American streets, leading to 100,000 deaths per\u2062 year. China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-banks-demands-cardona-investigate-chinese-influence-in-k-12-schools\/\" title=\"Jim Banks urges Cardona to probe Chinese influence in K-12 schools.\">intellectual property\u2062 theft<\/a> from the U.S. is legendary. It has amounted\u200c to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-22634685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trillions of\u2064 dollars of\u2062 theft at a clip of $300 billion to $600 billion per year.<\/a> A majority of Chinese citizens in the U.S. on student visas or green cards are here for benevolent \u2063purposes,\u200d but a minority conduct IP theft and other operations \u200dto undermine American \u200cnational security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/police-recruiting\/articles\/illinois-opens-police-recruitment-to-non-citizens-myth-busting-house-bill-3751-RUvS1dEkK3Ax5lYP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apologists<\/a> for the law claim\u200b Illinois is not\u200b alone in\u2062 allowing foreign\u2062 spies to become cops. California\u2063 and Colorado recently \u2063enacted similar policies, and \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/leitf.org\/2021\/08\/lprhiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handful of other states<\/a> have such laws \u2063on\u200c the\u200d books. None of these states seem to have thought through the consequences of allowing PRC citizens loyal to the\u200c Chinese Communist Party to police Americans and Chinese dissidents in America.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois General \u2064Assembly should rescind this senseless \u2064law for the good of \u200dthe state and nation. The Illinois \u200dlaw at a minimum should be amended to prohibit\u2063 citizens from countries\u2063 of concern, commonly \u200ddefined by the federal and state governments to include China, Iran, North\u2062 Korea, and Russia, from attaining law enforcement jobs. Tennessee allows some \u2063foreign citizens \u200bto serve \u200bin law enforcement if they \u200dhave served in the U.S. military and \u200breceived an honorable discharge \u2014 another useful \u2064filter to consider.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovPritzker\/status\/1689044468370972672?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crows for rankings<\/a> that proclaim Illinois as\u2064 America\u2019s most left-wing state. Let\u2019s hope Pritzker\u2019s example does not spread and that \u2062his virtue-signaling does not become synonymous with dereliction of national security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine an American citizen being arrested, detained, and questioned by a foreign police officer from China, Russia, or Iran on American streets. This officer, possibly a spy, monitors individuals of interest for their government. 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