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  • Veteran Arizona state cop resigns after discovered to be illegal immigrant

    By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News
    A detective for the Arizona state police resigned this week after it was revealed she isn't a U.S. citizen and had — perhaps unknowingly — misrepresented where she was born on application documents, officials said Wednesday.

    Arizona Department of Public Safety
    A photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows detective Carmen Figueroa, who resigned from her post following the discovery that she was in the United States illegally after being brought from Mexico at a young age,

    Former detective Carmen Figueroa — who worked 13 years for the Arizona Department of Public Safety and once served as the state police force’s spokeswoman — had stated in a required written affidavit when hired that she is a U.S. citizen. She later told investigators her family told her she was born in the Unites States.
    Instead, it turned out that she was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, and came to the U.S. as a young child and was living in the country illegally, NBC station KVOA in Tucson, the first to make the revelation, reported.

    Figueroa may have used a fake or forged birth certificate, the station reported, but officials said that she was likely told that she was born in this country by her mother.
    "We believe the affidavit and information she gave us at the time. And, she was under the impression that she herself was an American citizen," Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves told KVOA.

    Figueroa resigned on Monday but would have been fired if she hadn’t stepped down, Graves told The Associated Press. Arizona law requires all sworn officers to be U.S. citizens.

    "She did not really find out until this summer ... that she was an illegal alien through, I believe, a confrontation with her mother," Graves told the AP.

    Figueroa’s citizenship status came to light when her brother, a member of the U.S. military, applied with the State Department for a passport and federal authorities learned he had a sister who was an Arizona state police officer.

    Figueroa spent about a decade as a highway patrol officer in southern Arizona before become a detective and "had an exemplary record" on the job, Graves said.
    It was unclear if any criminal charges would be levied against Figueroa. She could not be reached.

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  • #2
    Sounds like something Obammy might do.

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    • #3
      I want to know how anything she testified over at any trial will hold up as she was committing a crime WHILE she was in the courtroom and destroys her credibility.
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      • #4
        Let's see if Sherriff Joe Arpillo will work to get her deported!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by The King View Post
          Sounds like something Obammy might do.
          You watch, He will use her some how to push for his immigration amnesty.

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          • #6
            Did she really not know she wasnt a American citizen?

            I wonder how long the brother has been in the military.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
              I want to know how anything she testified over at any trial will hold up as she was committing a crime WHILE she was in the courtroom and destroys her credibility.
              That and it would seem she needs to be in jail. The only way I'd be forgiving is if she had absolutely no clue. i.e. Her parents never told her, she had paperwork (from her parents)...etc...etc
              Originally posted by MR EDD
              U defend him who use's racial slurs like hes drinking water.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
                I want to know how anything she testified over at any trial will hold up as she was committing a crime WHILE she was in the courtroom and destroys her credibility.
                Every arrest, every testimony... all now null and void. Every case that she is even remotely involved will now have solid grounds for requesting new trials.

                She needs to be arrested, and if found guilty, have everything she owns seized and sold so that the people can recover the wages other compensation that was paid to here over those 13 years. I'm betting it won't happen, and that the cunt will not face charges and even keep her pension.

                Stevo
                Originally posted by SSMAN
                ...Welcome to the land of "Fuck it". No body cares, and if they do, no body cares.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by ceyko View Post
                  That and it would seem she needs to be in jail. The only way I'd be forgiving is if she had absolutely no clue. i.e. Her parents never told her, she had paperwork (from her parents)...etc...etc
                  Ignorance is no excuse.

                  Stevo
                  Originally posted by SSMAN
                  ...Welcome to the land of "Fuck it". No body cares, and if they do, no body cares.

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                  • #10
                    There is absolutely no way that she didn't know that she wasn't legal. How did she do all of the things that needed to be done with a birth certificate? I don't know of anyone that doesn't know what town they were born in.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by line-em-up View Post
                      There is absolutely no way that she didn't know that she wasn't legal.
                      Sure there is. People lie. Especially people who may be living in the country illegally. It is entirely possible her parents lied to her. It's not only possible, it's very likely considering her brother is in the Army, and didn't know he was illegal until applying for a passport.

                      Originally posted by line-em-up View Post
                      How did she do all of the things that needed to be done with a birth certificate?

                      A fake, or forged one her parents likely bought when they got here.


                      Originally posted by line-em-up View Post
                      I don't know of anyone that doesn't know what town they were born in.
                      Lots of adopted people don't know these things, because their parents also lie to them. They think they know, but all they know is what they are told.
                      Originally posted by BradM
                      But, just like condoms and women's rights, I don't believe in them.
                      Originally posted by Leah
                      In other news: Brent's meat melts in your mouth.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
                        I want to know how anything she testified over at any trial will hold up as she was committing a crime WHILE she was in the courtroom and destroys her credibility.

                        Probably depends on if a court can decide whether her testimony alone is the determining factor in the outcome of whatever case.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by ceyko View Post
                          That and it would seem she needs to be in jail. The only way I'd be forgiving is if she had absolutely no clue. i.e. Her parents never told her, she had paperwork (from her parents)...etc...etc
                          I don't think that's even possible... at some point in life, she would have known she does not have a SSN or birth certificate.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by bcoop View Post
                            Sure there is. People lie. Especially people who may be living in the country illegally. It is entirely possible her parents lied to her. It's not only possible, it's very likely considering her brother is in the Army, and didn't know he was illegal until applying for a passport.




                            A fake, or forged one her parents likely bought when they got here.




                            Lots of adopted people don't know these things, because their parents also lie to them. They think they know, but all they know is what they are told.
                            I'll give her the benefit of the doubt for now, but I still find it hard to believe. I wonder how old she is. Nowadays, babies are issues a SSN. When I was born, it wasn't that way. I didn't get a SSN until I was old enough to work. That meant I had to contact the state for my birth certificate, since I didn't have a copy of it. Years later, I had to get another copy because I misplaced it.
                            Last edited by line-em-up; 12-16-2013, 05:12 PM.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by bcoop View Post
                              Sure there is. People lie. Especially people who may be living in the country illegally. It is entirely possible her parents lied to her. It's not only possible, it's very likely considering her brother is in the Army, and didn't know he was illegal until applying for a passport.


                              .
                              If memory serves, you can't just have a copy of your BC to get in the military, you have to get a certified copy which means he'd have to go to the courthouse of his birth city. This is a huge security issue and should cause the military to go through and see who else is illegal and dump them outside of the borders until they get things handled.
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