Posted on 05/22/2017 9:08:46 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Officials in Corpus Christi, Texas just discovered that one on their Municipal Court Judges is not a United States citizen. And how was the situation handled? Well, “Judge” Young Min Burkett was placed on unpaid leave, after which “the city council [gave] her 90 days to become a citizen and keep her job.”
Yep. An illegal alien has been passing judgement on the activities of actual Americans in a Texas town. But it's OK, because Corpus Christi Mayor Pro-Tem Lucy Rubio said that city officials “never asked during the qualification process to become a municipal judge whether Burkett was a citizen and…Burkett never tried to deceive or misrepresent her background.”
Uh huh. They probably also didn’t inquire into her status as a thrill killer or whether she was behind the Tylenol poisonings a while back.
And besides, "she's a great lady,” continued Rubio. “She's a hard worker. Very smart. Very, I mean, just great person, but because she doesn't have that qualification, you know, unfortunately, we had to tell her that she couldn't, be removed from the bench and she could not serve."
She “doesn’t have that qualification, you know, unfortunately!” Well, yeah--how terribly unfair to demand that someone be a citizen in order to pass legal judgement on people who, you know, ARE citizens! Talk about narrow minded.
Yet “Burkett never tried to deceive or misrepresent her background,” claimed Rubio. Well you may be wrong about that, Mayor Pro-Tem. For in order to serve on the Municipal Court, “someone needs to work in Nueces County for at least two years and be a qualified voter.” But as an alien, Burkett is not permitted to vote. Once again, that silly “qualification” thing apparently jumped up and "unfortunately" bit her.
But unfortunate or not, Burkett accepted a job on the...
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Bull shit, she was not an illegal, she was a legal resident, just not a U S citizen!!
It’s time......BEAM ME UP SCOTTY. No intelligent life here.
“Not a citizen” is not the same as “illegal alien”. I don’t recall anything in the original news report about this that indicated that the erstwhile judge was in the US illegally, just that she did not have citizenship and had failed to disclose that on the application form.
She is NOT an illegal alien, but a legal green card holder.
On the application for the job, she was asked if she is legally eligible for employment in the United States. She truthfully answered ‘yes’, because a green card entitles you the permanently reside and work in the US.
The question for this particular job should have been ‘Are you a US citizen?’, but unfortunately, it wasn’t.
I still think you have to be an American citizen to be a judge. How else can you enforce rule of (US) law?. I think all judges take an oath to support the US Constitution. They cannot do that if they are not one of us.
Municipal court judge placed on leave for not being U.S. citizen
Fake News...
I don’t know if I ever filled out a US application for anything where it didn’t ask if I was a US citizen. Did she commit fraud on her application?
Do they have to live in the U.S.—or be present in the U.S.—or can anyone anywhere in the world serve as a judge? or vote in U.S. elections? Why does geography of location make any difference; isn’t that discrimination of some kind?
An illegal alien has been passing judgement on the activities of actual Americans.
Calling Judge Roy Bean your services are required at one.
Permanent Resident Alien, not an illegal alien.
Not a citizen, so ineligible to be a judge, but not an illegal alien.
If I wrote this article, I would be embarrassed for my error, and would either delete it, or correct it with an apology to my readers for lying to them.
but, she’s so very not guilty.
The Demoncratic cancer is trying to kill Texas also.
You can actually be a Justice of the Peace in Texas without a law degree...
There ya go!
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