LAPD chief says department is leading nationwide movement to arm DACA police officers
As the United States experiences a record number of migrant encounters at the southern border, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore says his Department is taking the nationwide lead on a unique immigration challenge: allowing non-citizen DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients who become sworn officers the ability to carry a firearm full-time.
On Tuesday, Moore said the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners "unanimously approved" the outline of a policy that would allow DACA recipients the capacity to carry a firearm off the job, which has been largely prohibited by law because DACA recipients are not United States citizens.
"We’ve worked closely with the Department of Justice at the state and federal level to express the fact that we desire to form a model policy that we think meets this moment and is the state of the law and provisions of immigration policy in the United States," Moore said.
In July of 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas held that the DACA policy was "illegal.” Last year, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Hanen’s ruling. But the panel sent the case back to his court to consider a new DACA rule issued by the Biden administration in August 2022.
So, we have non-citizens legally carrying guns in Los Angeles and employed as policemen.
"Federal law would generally prohibit such a person, who's in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy, from possessing a gun or ammunition, but by LAPD making their off-hours part of the, 'performance of their official duties or other law enforcement purpose,' these officers would be allowed to carry their guns while away from work, according to a new policy memo."
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California is usually the first in "progressive" decisions.
