How in the world is our paperwork regime in this country this bad?
An man from Liberia was able to sign up for the Pennsylvania National Guard AND get hired as a corrections officer in Minnesota at the same time while being in this country illegally.
Oh, AND he allegedly committed marriage fraud as well.
But I guess it's cool because he wanted to serve?
Here's part of the DHS news release:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Operation Twin Shield is yielding yet more results with the arrest of a Minnesota correctional officer and AWOL National Guard member masquerading as a U.S. citizen despite having no legal status in the United States. The serial fraudster was identified as part of the major enforcement operation that targeted suspected immigration fraud in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area last fall.
Through the joint efforts of Department of Homeland Security agencies USCIS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Morris Brown, a 45-year-old illegal alien from Liberia, was arrested Jan. 15 in Minneapolis by ICE for multiple violations of U.S. immigration law, including overstaying his student visa and making false claims to U.S. citizenship.
Dude was just a serial liar and a fraudster.
He lied to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and joined the Guard, he went AWOL, he lied to become a Minnesota corrections officer, he committed marriage fraud, he overstayed a student visa ...
And he still had his salary paid by taxpayers for years!
Brown last entered the U.S. in 2014 on a non-immigrant student visa that was terminated in 2015 because he failed to enroll in a full course of study. Despite not having legal status, he joined the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in 2014 but went AWOL the next year. He was ultimately apprehended and discharged from the military under other than honorable conditions in 2022.
Brown applied for a Green Card in 2020 under the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness program. USCIS denied his application due to misrepresentations, including his failure to disclose prior military service and his false claim to U.S. citizenship. In 2024, in another commission of fraud, he applied to naturalize as a U.S. citizen based on prior military service.
