ridiculous

Just how fucked up is my country? This fucked up:

Headline:

Non-Citizens Can Now Become Police Officers in Illinois

Illinois Gov. Jay Robert Pritzker has signed into law a bill allowing non-citizens to become police officers over the objection of the biggest police union in the state, which called it a "potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement."

Mr. Pritzker signed HB3751 into law on July 28, allowing non-citizens to apply to become police officers in Illinois with immediate effect, provided that they're legally authorized to work in the United States.

Foreign nationals who are legally authorized under federal law to work in the United States or any foreign national who "is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process" but who is authorized to possess a firearm can now apply to become a police officer in Illinois, according to the text of the bill.

Federal law states that only U.S. citizens can serve as police officers and deputies[,] but laws and legislative efforts in a number of states have changed that in the face of staffing shortages.

So that's what this is really about: staffing shortages. The left: "How can we take Defund the police and make things even worse for ourselves? Hey, I've got an idea!"