Immigration proposal will do nothingCosta Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor and Wendy Leece are filling our mailboxes with glossy brochures assuring us that they "support Mayor Mansoor's proposal to deport illegal aliens who commit major crimes" because this will keep Costa Mesa safe. What they don't tell us is how spending Costa Mesa taxpayers' dollars to train Costa Mesa Police officers to be immigration agents will get felony suspects deported or how that is going to make us safe. The truth of the matter is that the Mansoor-Leece proposal will do neither.
Costa Mesa police already arrest people who are suspected of having committed "major crimes" and turn them over to the criminal justice system to be dealt with there. The Orange County Sheriff's Department is now empowered to check the immigration status of the criminal suspects placed in their custody, so that noncitizens illegally in this country can be turned over to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement service.
