Illegal
aliens in Utah, along with the Obama administration and amnesty advocacy
groups, are mourning the forced resignation of Utah's pro-amnesty
Salt Lake City police chief, Chris Burbank, who abruptly surrendered his gun
and badge following his mishandling of a sexual harassment case.
Burbank's
resignation comes after former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, another
darling of illegal aliens, pro-amnesty groups, and the Obama administration,
was charged with nine felonies, including bribery, illegally accepting gifts,
and obstruction of justice.
Burbank
put a deputy police chief on paid leave in order to allow him to qualify for
his full pension rather than demoting or firing him for what Burbank himself determined to be substantiated
claims of sexual harassment by three female officers.
Burbank
has frequently been paraded
out by the White House and former U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder to make the argument that, in order to gain the cooperation
of illegal aliens, law enforcement officers have to give illegal aliens a pass
on being illegally in the United States and on virtually all other crimes that
they commit.
Burbank
is also a favorite of the pro-amnesty crowd. He is a member of the National Immigration Forum's
(NIF) Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force and has appeared on multiple panels organized by the NIF to advocate for the non-enforcement of laws
when they apply to illegal aliens.
Appearing
on an NIF panel in Salt Lake City with
then-Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, Burbank openly justified the use of
fraudulent documents by illegal aliens and made light of illegal alien-driven
felony identity theft. Burbank even laughed out loud when someone in the
audience shouted out the address of a store selling illegally obtained Social
Security numbers to illegal aliens. Burbank's statements, coupled with
Shurtleff's silence sent the message, made clear that those buying, selling,
and using fraudulent documents (all felonies) had nothing to fear from law
enforcement in Utah. Burbank and Shurtleff also sent the message just as loudly
and clearly to the parents of the estimated 80,000 Utah children
who have had their Social Security numbers used by illegal aliens that nothing
will be done to protect them.
In
addition, Burbank was among those praised by the National Immigration Law
Center (NILC) for putting his name to an amicus (friend of the court) brief
supporting President Obama's executive amnesty on the grounds that blocking it
would make it harder for police to do their jobs and negatively impact public
safety. During a video conference sponsored by NILC,
Burbank described the executive amnesty as a "fantastic first step".
His actions were also applauded by America's Voice and the Immigration Policy Center,
two other organizations that support total amnesty for illegal aliens.
All
this leads one to ask what type of individual supports amnesty for illegal
aliens? Is it the type that supports sexual harassers? Or is it the type who is
accused of taking bribes, extortion, and sacrificing citizens whom they are
sworn to protect in order to get a job with a prestigious law firm?
In
the cases of both Burbank and Shurtleff, it appears that they sincerely believe
that they have been given the power to determine who the law favors rather than
seeing their roles as upholding the rule of law and doing their best to ensure
that there is equal justice under law.
Burbank
apparently saw nothing wrong with throwing victims of sexual harassment under
the bus in order to protect a colleague or in using taxpayer funds to pay the
harasser his full salary for doing nothing until his full pension kicked in. In
addition, Burbank never had, and still does not have, any problem with turning
his back on tens of thousands of innocent Utah children who are victims of
identity theft perpetrated by the same criminal illegal aliens that he favors
and protects.
Shurtleff
reportedly didn't hesitate to throw homeowners under the bus so he could
ostensibly get a job with a law firm that would allow him to continue
advocating for illegal aliens or to reportedly accept gifts or "ask"
people who were under investigation by his office to provide huge campaign
contributions to himself and his allies.
Are
Burbank and Shurtleff a purely a Utah phenomenon or are they symptomatic of a
wider behavior pattern? For example, do those who support illegal aliens have a
greater propensity to ignore the rule of law and to take the position that
equal justice under law is simply not possible? Do they place certain
individuals or groups above others based on personal beliefs and preferences
rather than treating all people equally under the law until such time as laws
they disagree with are changed? And is this an indication that the United
States system of justice is becoming more corrupt and moving closer to the
highly corrupt systems that are found in the home countries of illegal aliens?
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