00:00ICE agents in New Orleans nabbed an illegal immigrant with an active deportation order
00:05last month. But here's the twist. Law enforcement should have found him sooner and pretty easily.
00:10He was hired by the Big Easy's police department and was just a week shy of graduating from the
00:15police academy, which means he was also issued a firearm. 46-year-old Larry Tema, originally from
00:21Cameroon, was picked up at his home on January 26th. Now, Tema entered the U.S. legally on a
00:28visitor visa back in 2015 and was given conditional residency when he married an American citizen the
00:33next year. But his green card application was rejected in 2022 over concerns that the marriage
00:40was a sham. He then failed to show up in immigration court three times, and so a judge slapped him with
00:46that deportation order. The Trump administration is slamming the New Orleans PD for hiring the man,
00:51but the department says that he was deemed eligible for employment through ICE's E-Verify system. That
00:57system has had similar issues in the past with people being verified who shouldn't have been. The
01:02sheriff's office said, quote, any claim that NOPD knowingly violated the law is false.
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