                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO ARREST ILLEGAL ALIENS (§ 19.2-81.6)

All law-enforcement officers enumerated in § 19.2-81 shall have the authority
to enforce immigration laws of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of
this section. Any law-enforcement officer enumerated in § 19.2-81 may, in the
course of acting upon reasonable suspicion that an individual has committed or
is committing a crime, arrest the individual without a warrant upon receiving
confirmation from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the
United States Department of Homeland Security that the individual (i) is an
alien illegally present in the United States, and (ii) has previously been
convicted of a felony in the United States and deported or left the United
States after such conviction. Upon receiving such confirmation, the officer
shall take the individual forthwith before a magistrate or other issuing
authority and proceed pursuant to § 19.2-82.

HISTORY: 2004, cc. 360, 412.