{"id":15894,"date":"2020-08-21T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2020-08-21T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:58:18","slug":"federal-court-says-illegal-aliens-with-daca-is-an-illegal-alien-and-cannot-lawfully-own-a-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/21\/federal-court-says-illegal-aliens-with-daca-is-an-illegal-alien-and-cannot-lawfully-own-a-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court says illegal aliens with DACA is an illegal alien and cannot lawfully own a firearm -“Dreamer” Dreams of the Right to Own a Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illegal aliens protest in Atlanta for in-state tuition in Georgia’s public universities. Photo: Education Writers Assoc.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Dreamer” Dreams of the Right to Own a Gun<\/h1>\n

Dream on, says a federal district court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EUGENE VOLOKH |THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY | 6.28.2018<\/p>\n

Kevin Ugurit Fierro-Morales is being prosecuted for possessing a short-barreled shotgun, and for possessing a firearm while “being an alien” “illegally or unlawfully in the United States” (in violation of 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 922(g)(5)(A)). But when he was arrested, he was covered by the Defered Action for Childhood Arrivals program\u2014should that lead him to be treated as lawfully present, and as entitled to Second Amendment rights? (Set aside the separate charge short-barreled shotgun charge for now.)<\/p>\n

No and no, a federal district court in San Diego held<\/strong><\/a> Tuesday. First, DACA made clear that President Obama’s action didn’t itself confer legal status: “[T]he provisions of DACA promising to defer removal and to authorize work did not confer lawful immigration status or create ambiguity as to the prohibitions of \u00a7 922(g)(5)(A).”<\/p>\n

Second, the Second Amendment applies only to the responsible and law-abiding, whether just “responsible, law-abiding citizens” or also responsible, law-abiding permanent residents or even responsible, law-abiding temporary visitors. (The court doesn’t decide on the rights of legal aliens.) Congress may ban “possession of firearms by an alien in the United States with no legal status,” and DACA recipients don’t have legal status. (I’m oversimplifying the court’s Second Amendment discussion a bit, but that’s the gist.) Here.<\/a><\/p>\n

“In this case, the Court concludes that Defendant\u2019s acceptance into DACA announced by the Department of Homeland Security did not alter his immigration status or materially impact the determination whether he is \u201cillegally or unlawfully in the United States\u201d pursuant to \u00a7 922(g)(5)(A).<\/p>\n

As in Abramski, there is nothing suggesting that Congress intended to exclude aliens \u201cillegally or unlawfully in the United States\u201d accepted in the DACA Program from the statutory provision in \u00a7 922(g)(5)(A). See Latu, 479 F.3d at 1159 (\u201cabsent a statute preventing Latu\u2019s removability upon the filing of his application for adjustment status, we can envision no interpretation that renders Latu\u2019s presence anything other than \u2018illegal[] or unlawful[].\u2019\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent GUNS \u00a0– “Dreamer” Dreams of the Right to Own a Gun Dream on, says a federal district court. EUGENE VOLOKH |THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY | 6.28.2018 Kevin Ugurit Fierro-Morales is being prosecuted for possessing a short-barreled shotgun, and for possessing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15913,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions\/15913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}