Denver Sheriff Department is fined $10,000 for posting job ads which said that only US citizens could apply

Wednesday, November 23, 2016
By Paul Martin

Colorado’s largest sheriff department illegally blocked non-US applicants
Denver Sheriff Department was involved in a major recruitment drive
The Immigration and Nationality Act protects the rights of non-US citizens
More than 40 states have laws preventing police hiring non-citizens
Colorado is among the minority of states with no restriction rules

By DARREN BOYLE
DailyMail.com
23 November 2016

The Denver Sheriff Department will pay $10,000 and change its hiring practices after the Justice Department found it broke the law by excluding job candidates who were not US citizens.

Following an investigation, the Justice Department found Colorado’s largest police department illegally required deputy sheriff applicants to be US citizens and posed job ads with citizenship requirements.

The department introduced the restriction on January 1, 2015 and continued until March 23.

At the time, the sheriff’s department was involved in a major recruitment drive.

However, the Immigration and Nationality Act’s anti-discrimination provision’s requires most employers to consider people who are not US citizens, as long as they have a work permit.

Yet the federal law also allows police departments to impose hiring restrictions based on citizenship status as long as they are the result of state law or government mandate, not internal policies.

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