Federal officials offer to put an agent in Costa Mesa jail to check immigration status - California

“Federal officials have offered to assign a full-time immigration agent to the Costa Mesa City Jail to check the residency status of all inmates , a response to lobbying by the town’s anti-illegal-immigration activists, including Mayor Allan Mansoor.

The proposal, if accepted, would make Costa Mesa the only city in Orange or Los Angeles counties to have its own federal immigration agent stationed in a city jail, said Jim Hayes, a regional director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He offered the city federal help in a letter Thursday.”

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