Corrections department challenges state law following whistleblower complaint on immigrant guards: report

A Seattle-area corrections section is asking a Washington justice to artifact enforcement of a authorities instrumentality barring it from hiring unauthorized immigrants, pursuing a whistleblower study alleging that dozens of jailhouse guards lacked ineligible enactment authorization, according to a caller report.

The whistleblower probe kicked disconnected successful aboriginal October aft an unnamed King County worker sent a ailment to the state's Criminal Justice Training Commission (WSCJTC).

"Individuals person been hired portion holding lone impermanent enactment visas, and successful immoderate cases, with expired enactment authorization altogether," the ailment reads. "These hires are successful nonstop usurpation of the statutory requirements acceptable distant by authorities law."

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A pedestrian passes by the King County Correctional Facility successful downtown Seattle, Washington, U.S., September 17, 2020. (Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)

Rather than comply with hiring standards outlined successful authorities law, King County’s Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention Director Allen Nance is reportedly suing to person the instrumentality struck down, according to SeattleRed big Jason Rantz.

"Washington has agelong prohibited favoritism against radical based connected migration status," Nance wrote, according to a Nov. 10 memo reportedly obtained by Rantz. "The County believes the authorities instrumentality is unconstitutional due to the fact that it restricts employment eligibility successful a mode that is contrary to national migration standards, discriminates against section COs, and endangers the information of our jails by disqualifying hard-working, experienced officers."

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The section antecedently told Fox News Digital that it was investigating the whistleblower ailment and denied that immoderate of the guards were amerciable immigrants, adjacent though immoderate appeared to person failed to conscionable the ineligible eligibility requirements.

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Washington instrumentality requires each bid officers successful the authorities person their migration presumption verified and indispensable beryllium American citizens, lawful imperishable residents oregon beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known arsenic DACA.

A idiosyncratic walks by the King County Correctional Facility successful downtown Seattle, Washington, U.S., September 17, 2020.  (Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)

The instrumentality does not let for the hiring of radical with impermanent visas, expired enactment authorization oregon amerciable immigrants who bash not autumn nether DACA.

The state's grooming committee told Fox News Digital that portion it trains recently hired corrections officers, it's the work of the hiring agencies to vet the candidates. However, aft learning of the whistleblower complaint, region officials told the committee that 4 of its caller hires did not conscionable eligibility requirements, and they were expelled from the grooming program.

A pedestrian crosses the thoroughfare adjacent the King County Correctional Facility successful downtown Seattle, Washington, U.S., September 17, 2020. (Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)

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King County is the largest successful the authorities and includes Seattle and immoderate of its suburbs.

Local authorities were cooperating with the authorities investigation, a WSCJTC spokesperson said previously.