ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Who Allegedly Worked As MN Corrections Officer While AWOL From National Guard

This is one of those stories that sounds made up until you read the federal release yourself.

A Liberian national who federal authorities say had no legal status in the United States was allegedly working as a Minnesota corrections officer, posing as a U.S. citizen, and at one point serving in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard before going AWOL. According to USCIS, the case was uncovered through “Operation Twin Shield,” a DHS enforcement effort targeting immigration fraud in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

If the allegations are accurate, this was not a clerical error. It was a years-long chain of deception that reached into immigration vetting, military service, and public safety employment. That is a wholesale systems breakdown.

Here is how it broke on X.

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DHS announces the ICE arrest of a Liberian illegal alien who they say was working as a Minnesota corrections officer while also being AWOL from the PA National Guard, all while masquerading as a U.S. citizen despite having no legal status in the… pic.twitter.com/l9CzsabzrE
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BREAKING:
This is wild one.
DHS announces the ICE arrest of a Liberian illegal alien who they say was working as a Minnesota corrections officer while also being AWOL from the PA National Guard, all while masquerading as a U.S. citizen despite having no legal status in the U.S. DHS says 45-year-old Morris Brown was identified as part of the major operation into MN investigating aliens involved in fraud.
He’s also alleged to have committed marriage fraud and made repeated false claims to U.S. immigration authorities.
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The release lays out a troubling timeline.

According to USCIS, Morris Brown, 45, was arrested Jan. 15 in Minneapolis for multiple immigration violations, including overstaying a student visa and making false claims to U.S. citizenship.

Through the joint efforts of Department of Homeland Security agencies USCIS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Morris Brown, a 45-year-old illegal alien from Liberia, was arrested Jan. 15 in Minneapolis by ICE for multiple violations of U.S. immigration law, including overstaying his student visa and making false claims to U.S. citizenship.

Brown entered the U.S. in 2014 on a student visa that was terminated in 2015 after he failed to enroll in a full course of study. Despite losing status, DHS says he joined the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in 2014, went AWOL in 2015, and was ultimately discharged under other-than-honorable conditions in 2022.

In 2020, he applied for a Green Card under the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness program. USCIS denied that application due to misrepresentations, including failure to disclose prior military service and a false claim to U.S. citizenship.

In 2024, according to the release, he applied to naturalize based on prior military service. During that review, investigators uncovered alleged marriage fraud and additional false claims to U.S. citizenship. They also learned he was working as a Minnesota corrections officer by claiming to be a U.S. citizen despite having no lawful status.

A corrections officer is not a low-trust job. It involves supervising inmates and operating inside secure facilities. It requires background checks and eligibility verification. If these allegations hold, someone who overstayed a visa and allegedly falsified citizenship claims cleared multiple layers of screening.

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And this is not an isolated episode.

Last October, ICE arrested a visa overstay in suburban Chicago who had recently been sworn in as a local police officer and authorized to carry a firearm while on duty.

“Illegal aliens are prohibited from owning or possessing firearms — full stop,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Chicago Field Office Director Sam Olson. “This is the second known instance in recent months of a local police department hiring an illegal alien and unlawfully issuing him a firearm while on duty in violation of federal law. It is alarming how local jurisdictions continue to disregard federal law to the detriment of their communities.”

Two different states. Two public safety roles. The same vulnerability.

To be clear, Brown’s case will be adjudicated in court, and allegations are not convictions. But the timeline in the DHS release spans 2014 through 2024, including immigration benefit applications processed during the Biden administration.

That matters.

Vetting failures do not happen in a vacuum. They happen when verification systems weaken, enforcement slips, and red flags are missed.

If someone can allegedly overstay a visa, go AWOL from a military unit, falsely claim U.S. citizenship, apply for immigration benefits multiple times, and still secure a public safety job, that is not a fluke — that is a structural failure, and it needs to be closely examined.

Operation Twin Shield caught this one.

The real question is how many slipped through before the system tightened.

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