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Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Part IX · Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality

§ 1358. Local jurisdiction over immigrant stations

Statutory text

The officers in charge of the various immigrant stations shall admit therein the proper State and local officers charged with the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory of the United States in which any such immigrant station is located in order that such State and local officers may preserve the peace and make arrests for crimes under the laws of the States and Territories. For the purpose of this section the jurisdiction of such State and local officers and of the State and local courts shall extend over such immigrant stations.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 82–477 · 66 Stat. 609

    Enacted · 8 U.S.C. § 1358

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

    Source evidence

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

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Credits

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

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