---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1358"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1358"
heading: "Local jurisdiction over immigrant stations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1358"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter II — Immigration"
  - "Part IX — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1358. Local jurisdiction over immigrant stations


The officers in charge of the various [immigrant](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-15) stations shall admit therein the proper [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) and local officers charged with the enforcement of the laws of the [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) or Territory of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) in which any such [immigrant](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-15) station is located in order that such [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) and local officers may preserve the peace and make arrests for crimes under the laws of the [States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) and Territories. For the purpose of this section the jurisdiction of such [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) and local officers and of the [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) and local courts shall extend over such [immigrant](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-15) stations.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 9, § 288, 66 Stat. 234.)