County Fighting to Keep Employing Illegal Aliens as Prison Guards

The “Nobody is above the law” crowd in Seattle is big mad that they are being required to…obey a Washington law that requires law enforcement officers to be legally in the United States. 

Because of course they are. “Nobody is above the law” means nothing more or less than “for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” That, along with a corollary: the law says what we want it to say. 

Rantz Exclusive: King County sues to block citizenship rule for corrections officers after illegal hires scandal https://t.co/2lnalgkxfU

— Jason Rantz on Seattle Red (@jasonrantz) November 11, 2025

At issue is a practice in King County, Washington, of hiring illegal aliens to be corrections officers, who are required to meet law enforcement standards in order to be hired. Currently, the county employs 38 illegal aliens. 

King County’s Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention (DAJD) asked a King County Superior Court judge for a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of a Washington statute that limits who may be certified as a corrections officer, a move that follows weeks of fallout over at least 38 DAJD hires who do not meet the law’s immigration-status requirement.

Apparently, we have reached the stage of “Bread and Circuses” in America where the job of “Corrections Officer” is one that no American will do. Perhaps this is a reason why the city, county, and state refuse to cooperate with the federal government to enforce federal law. Can you imagine the contradiction involved in a situation where illegal aliens are in jail while being guarded by illegal aliens who broke the same laws?

Lest you think that the Washington law is especially harsh, excluding everybody not descended from the pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth Rock, it is hardly restrictive. 

“King County filed suit today seeking to strike down a state law that requires DAJD to verify to the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) that corrections officers are citizens, lawful permanent residents, or deferred action childhood arrivals (DACA) recipients,” Nance wrote in the email obtained by The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red 770 AM.

Uh…so, basically, the corrections are legally permitted to work in the United States. That’s not exactly restrictive, unless the argument is that we must import people from outside the country to work in law enforcement. Illegally. Maybe they should start an H1B program to import people, too. It would make implementing Sharia law for Muslims who demand it easier. 

The statute at issue—RCW 43.101.095—requires peace and corrections officers to obtain and maintain certification under rules of the Criminal Justice Training Commission. As implemented, CJTC will not certify corrections officers unless they are U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or DACA recipients.

It is true that recent migrants awaiting adjudication of their cases may obtain temporary work permits, and King County is employing some of them. But it is hardly a burdensome restriction to deny people who may be deported soon the opportunity to run our corrections system. 

You would think, at least. 

What is really at stake here is the fact that the Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention KNOWINGLY lied and broke the law in order to make these hires. 

A bit ironic, huh? They 

The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red 770 AM has previously reported exclusively that DAJD acknowledged “38 corrections officers who were incorrectly certified as meeting the conditions of RCW 43.101.095(2)(b)(v).” The department said, “All are fully trained as corrections officers and authorized to work in the United States,” and that it is “keeping all available avenues of relief open.”

That acknowledgement came as state regulators suspended four recruits in the wake of our reporting, and as sources indicated county leaders were exploring litigation to loosen or reinterpret eligibility rules.

They didn’t go to the legislature and lobby to change the law. They just decided they didn’t like it and broke it. Now that they have been exposed, they are suing to have the law invalidated. 

Bureaucrats see themselves as a privileged class. And in this case, the bureaucrats who keep people behind bars for breaking the law are in high dudgeon that they must follow the law. 

Typical. This is how government works. For themselves, everything. For their enemies, the law (as they choose to interpret it). 

I wonder how many of the government officials who routinely arrogate to themselves the right to do exactly as they want, when they want, with no regard to the law, went to the “No Kings” rallies? 

No doubt more than a few.  

Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points. They own this.

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