Some Illegal Immigrants Getting More Gun Rights than You and Me

There shouldn’t be a pile of gun control laws on the books. The Second Amendment is clear on that. 

Unfortunately, there are. There’s a ton of them. Police officers often get to live by a different set of laws. There’s some logic to it, I suppose, since police officers are going to make enemies who want to kill them more often most of us do, but that doesn’t mean it’s right. The idea of a multi-tier legal structure for anything is un-American, but it is what it is and that’s how the law works.

Most people aren’t losing sleep over it. After all, police officers are supposed to be trustworthy and most of them are. Most aren’t anything close to criminals.

But, well, some are making criminals into cops.

🚨NEW MEXICO HIRING NON-CITIZENS AS COPS!🚨

PDs hiring non-citizens as cops to enforce gun control on Americans—plus carrying nationwide under LEOSA?

NO!

Americans deserve nationwide carry, not non-citizen gun control thugs!

Call Congress to pass H.R. 38!

☎️202-224-3121 https://t.co/V53xzWa2oX pic.twitter.com/HlDMzqbmz4

— Luis Valdes (@RealFLGunLobby) May 12, 2025

Now, I don’t have an issue with a non-citizen who has a green card or a visa that allows them to live and work in the United States becoming a police officer, especially if they’re working toward citizenship. They want to be American, and many want to give back to their new home. I respect this.

But this isn’t about just non-citizens. It’s about illegal immigrants who have entered the country in violation of our laws, but who will be sworn law enforcement officers and be able to carry nationwide, while you and I are stuck having to deal with reciprocity.

And this didn’t just happen, either. It’s a situation that’s been brewing for a bit, as GOA’s Luis Valdes noted back in June at our sister site, Townhall.

Police departments across the country are getting desperate to hire due to chronic understaffing and elevated burnout. Earlier this month, the Seattle Police Department became the latest major law enforcement agency to open recruiting to illegal aliens, and if hired, these new cops will end up having more gun rights than everyday Americans.  

Under this new hiring policy, illegal aliens protected from deportation under the Obama-era DACA program will be eligible to apply. Of course, should these aspiring officers pass the training academy, they will be sworn to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and empowered with the full authority of the law, including the authority to arrest, execute warrants, and carry service weapons.  

Many readers may not be aware that a series of federal laws exist that exempt active and retired police officers from state and local gun control laws when carrying off-duty and in restricted areas. This can include the right to carry in many gun-free zones and exempt them from bans on certain firearms and certain magazines. On top of that, House Republicans just passed a bill to further expand these rights to carry for current and retired cops on certain public lands and in many federal buildings.  

Again, many readers may not care about cops being able to carry places you and I can’t. That’s fine. It’s a point of disagreement, but not so much that I’ll think you a bad person.

But I do have a problem with the idea that an illegal immigrant, who doesn’t even have Second Amendment rights in the eyes of the courts, will be allowed to lawfully carry in buildings that I, an American taxpayer, fund, but can’t carry my own firearm into.

I’m always going to have a problem with that.

It’s bad enough when police get exemptions to gun control laws as it is. When you’re allowing illegal immigrants to become police officers, thus getting to enjoy those exemptions, too, and I’m going to have a major problem.

Even if you’re an open borders kind of person, this should be an issue for you, though I suspect it’s not.

For people who actually value the rule of law, this is a bigger problem.

I get the hiring issues are real, and you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to fill those roles, but there needs to be a line. 

Maybe if these communities had stopped taking dumps on police officers because of what happened in a completely different state, they wouldn’t be in this fix in the first place.