ICE arrests New Orleans police recruit with deportation order who was issued firearm by department

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a New Orleans Police Department enlistee from Cameroon who was issued a firearm contempt an progressive deportation order, conscionable 1 week earlier helium was acceptable to postgraduate from the constabulary academy.

ICE said successful a property merchandise Tuesday that 46-year-old Larry Temah was arrested Jan. 28 and remains successful ICE custody.

The New Orleans Police Department recruited Temah and issued him a firearm contempt national instrumentality prohibiting amerciable aliens from possessing firearms, according to ICE.

Temah entered the U.S. legally successful 2015 connected a visitant visa and was granted conditional residency the pursuing twelvemonth aft marrying a U.S. citizen, ICE said.

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Larry Temah, a NOPD recruit, was detained by ICE, according to officials. (Department of Homeland Security)

In 2022, his exertion for imperishable residency was denied owed to fraud.

Temah was ordered to look successful migration tribunal 3 times but failed to appear, resulting successful an migration justice ordering him removed from the state successful absentia, ICE said.

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ICE arrested a New Orleans constabulary enlistee from Cameroon who was issued a firearm contempt an progressive deportation order, prompting a quality with metropolis officials. (Octavio Jones/Reuters)

ICE besides said Temah did not person valid enactment authorization and remains successful custody pending removal proceedings.

"This amerciable alien from Cameroon, Larry Temah, is not lone breaking the instrumentality with each measurement helium takes successful this state illegally, but the New Orleans Police Department hired him and issued him a firearm — what benignant of instrumentality enforcement section gives transgression amerciable aliens guns and badges?" Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "It’s a felony for amerciable aliens to person a firearm."

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DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blasted NOPD for issuing a firearm to an amerciable immigrant, saying it violates national law. (Charly Triballeau/ AFP via Getty Images)

McLaughlin said ICE is restoring instrumentality and bid nether President Trump and Secretary Noem and accused sanctuary cities specified arsenic New Orleans of protecting amerciable aliens astatine the disbursal of American citizens.

A spokesperson for the New Orleans Police Department disputed ICE’s claims, calling them misleading.

"The New Orleans Police Department verified Mr. Temah’s employment eligibility done ICE’s E-Verify strategy anterior to hiring and was ne'er notified of immoderate ICE detainer," the spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "New Orleans is not a sanctuary city, and NOPD does not power jailhouse operations oregon detainer decisions, which autumn nether the Sheriff’s Office."

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"Any assertion that NOPD knowingly violated the instrumentality is false," the spokesperson added.