INS to Post Full-Time Agent at County Jail
The Immigration and Naturalization Service will station a full-time agent at the Ventura County Jail for the next six months to help root out illegal immigrants, Rep. Elton Gallegly announced Friday.
Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) said the agent should arrive in the county within the next two weeks.
The deployment of INS agents at jails in Ventura and Anaheim is called for in a Gallegly amendment to a sweeping immigration reform bill, folded into a year-end appropriations bill and approved by Congress last month.
“I am encouraged that INS is complying with the law by finally taking steps to assign an agent to the Ventura County Jail,” Gallegly said in a prepared statement.
“For too long we have allowed some of the most dangerous illegal immigrants to slip through the criminal justice system and remain in our community,” he added.
“It is my hope that stationing an INS agent at the jail will allow early detection of these criminal aliens and timely deportation.”
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