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Milwaukee Officer Found To Be Illegal Immigrant

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"Like the priest is saying, no one should have to suffer like his family is now," parish secretary Carmen Arenas Hernandez said. "We pray for all the families in the same situation, and there are a lot."

But Albert Kroll, 72, a retired school board member washing the sidewalk near the church, said Ayala-Cornejo and his brother should face consequences. "They were both wrong," he said. "It's amazing that his brother was a police officer and said nothing."

Balcerzak said the department could suffer consequences.

"This is going to mushroom and cause problems down the road because even when you issue a citation you're swearing everything in it is true and correct," he said.

"Since he wasn't even who he said he was, that could cause all sorts of problems. Luckily, he hadn't been an officer for that long."

At a South Milwaukee bar, feelings were mixed.

"If he could sneak into the force, how many others could sneak in?" asked machinist Victor Rivera, 53. "Why didn't the people who interviewed him make a better investigation of who he really was?"

"This guy was working to support his family," countered Faustino Lopez Aleman, 54, who works in housing rehabilitation. "If he was a good policeman, he shouldn't be punished. Think of all the corrupt police who get nothing done, and they're still on the force."

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