(Disclosure: It’s my blog post)
The sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, one Richard K. Jones, who gives “Yosemite Sam meets diabeetus,” legit wrote a letter to DJT — cc’d to Elon, no less — saying that immigration visas were “too confusing” for local law enforcement. I wasn’t joking about his look.
Then held a Facebook Live/press conference to… apparently brag about how unintelligent he thinks law enforcement is.
Of course, behind the cringe is the simple fact that we’re looking at a bully who is so unintelligent that he has to ask who the “bad guys” are. A bully who knows who the bigger bullies are, and thinks that there is absolutely nothing wrong with displaying both his lack of intelligence and his willingness to bully others to the public at large.
And judging by the comments on his post, he’s sadly right.
No idea about visas and their nomenclature, but this can’t be all that hard to resolve with computers that everyone has in their pocket today? Also why would police even involve itself into cheking validity or conditions of specific visas?
If you have an interaction with someone with a visa it help if you can tell if the visa is legit. And if the paper one is all you have because the person can’t/won’t access a digital version (idk if that’s even a thing) then that’s all you have to work with.
Agreed, for me it feels as these problems mostly stem from lack of universal id in US, as in modern ones that have all information on them.