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(1) the giving, loaning, or promising of money or anything of value to be used for the advising, advocacy, or teaching of any doctrine above enumerated shall constitute the advising, advocacy, or teaching of such doctrine; and (2) the giving, loaning, or promising of money or anything of value to any organization, association, society, or group of the character above described shall constitute affiliation therewith; but nothing in this paragraph shall be taken as an exclusive definition of advising, advocacy, teaching, or affiliation.

(g) DEPORTATION. Any alien who was at the time of entering the United States, or has been at any time thereafter, a member of any one of the classes of aliens enumerated in section 1 of this Act, shall, upon the warrant of the Attorney General, be taken into custody and deported in the manner provided in the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to the classes of aliens mentioned in this Act, irrespective of the time of their entry into the United States.

(h) SAME; REENTRY; PUNISHMENT. Any alien who shall, after he has been excluded and deported or arrested and deported in pursuance of the provisions of this section, thereafter return to or enter the United States or attempt to return to or enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; and shall, upon the termination of such imprisonment be taken into custody, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, and deported in the manner provided in this subchapter. (Oct. 16, 1918, c. 186, Sections 1-3, 40 stat. 1012; June 5, 1920, c. 251, 41 Stat. 1008.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 138. IMPORTATION OF ALIENS FOR IMMORAL PURPOSES; ATTEMPT TO REENTER AFTER DEPORTATION; PENALTY. The importation into the United States of any alien for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, is forbidden; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import, into the United States any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, or shall hold or attempt to hold any alien for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation, or shall keep, maintain, control, support, employ, or harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, any alien, in pursuance of such illegal importation, shall in every such case be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years and by a fine of not more than $5,000. Jurisdiction for the trial and punishment of the felonies hereinbefore set forth shall be in any district to or into which said alien is brought in pursuance of said importation by the person or persons accused, or in any district in which a violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section occurs. Any alien who shall, after he has been excluded and deported or arrested and deported in pursuance of the provisions of this subchapter which relate to prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons, attempt thereafter to return to or to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than two years. In all prosecutions under this section the testimony of a husband or wife shall be admissible and competent evidence against each other. (Feb. 5, 1917, c. 29, sec. 4, 39 Stat. 878.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 139. CONTRACT LABORERS; PREPAYING TRANSPORTATION OR ASSISTING IMPORTATION; FORFEITURE AND PUNISHMENT. It shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation or in any way to induce, assist, encourage, or solicit, or attempt to induce; assist, encourage, or solicit the importation or migration of any contract laborer or contract laborers into the United States, unless such contract laborer or contract laborers are exempted under the second proviso of paragraph (h) of section 136 of this title or have been imported with the permission of the Secretary of Labor in accordance with said paragraph (h), and for every violation of any of the provisions of this section the person, partnership, company, or corporation violating the same shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of $1,000, which may be sued for and recovered by the United States, as debts of like amount are now recovered in the courts of the United States. For every violation of the provisions hereof the person violating the same may be prosecuted in a criminal action for a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of $1,000, or by imprisonment for a term of not less than six months nor more than two years; and under either the civil or the criminal procedure mentioned separate suits or prosecution may be brought for each alien thus offered or promised employment as aforesaid. The Department of Justice, with the approval of the Department of Labor, may from any fines or penalties received pay rewards to persons other than Government employees who may furnish information leading to the recovery of any such penalties, or to the arrest and punishment of any person, as in this section provided. (Feb. 5, 1917, o. 29, Sec. 5, 39 Stat. 879.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 44. BRINGING IN OR HARBORING OR CONCEALING CERTAIN ALIENS. Any person, including the master, agent, owner, or consignee of any vessel, who shall bring into or land in the United States, by vessel or otherwise, or shall attempt, by himself or through another, to bring into or land in the United States, by vessel or otherwise, or shall conceal or harbor or attempt to conceal or narbor, or assist or abet another to conceal or harbor, in any place, including any building, vessel, railway car, conveyance, or vehicle, any alien not duly admitted by an immigrant inspector or not lawfully entitled to enter or to reside within the United States, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000 and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years for each and every alien so landed or brought in or attempted to be landed or brought in. (Feb. 5, 1917, .. 29, Sec. 8, 39 stat. 880.)

TITLE 8, Section 146. PREVENTION OF UNAUTHORIZED LANDING OF ALIENS; PRIMA FACIE PROOF OF LANDING. (a) It shall be the duty of every person, including owners, masters, officers, and agents of vessels of transportation lines, or international bridges or toll roads, other than railway lines which may enter into a contract as provided in section 102 of this title (for expeditious inspection of aliens)

bringing an alien to, or providing a means for an alien to come to, the United States, to prevent the landing of such alien in the United States at any time or place other than as designated by the immigration officers. Any such person, owner, master, officer, or agent who fails to comply with the foregoing requirements shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine in each case of not less than $200 or more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment; or, if in the opinion of the Secretary of Labor, it is impracticable or inconvenient to prosecute the person, owner, master, officer, or agent of any such vessel, such person, owner, master, officer, or agent shall be liable to a penalty of $1,000, which shall be a lien upon the vessel whose owner, master, officer, or agent violates the provisions of this section, and such vessel shall be libeled therefor in the appropriate United States court.

(b) Proof that the alien failed to present himself at the time and place designated by the immigration officers shall be prima facie evidence that such alien has landed in the United States at a time or place other than as designated by the immigration officers. (Feb. 5, 1917, c. 29, Sec. 10, 39 Stat. 881; May 26, 1924, c. 190, Sec. 27, 43 Stat. 167.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 163. AIDING OR ASSISTING CERTAIN ALIENS TO ENTER; PENALTY. Any person who knowingly aids or assists any anarchist or any person who believes in or advocates the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or who disbelieves in or is opposed to organized government, or all forms of law, or who advocates the assassination of public officials, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization entertaining or teaching disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character, to enter the United States, or who connives or conspires with any person or persons to allow, procure, or permit any such anarchist or person aforesaid to enter therein, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.

Any person who knowingly aids or assists any alien who advocates or teaches the unlawful destruction of property to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Feb. 5, 1917, c. 29, Sec. 28, 39 Stat. 894.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 165. SIGNING ALIEN ON SHIP'S ARTICLES WITH INTENT TO PERMIT LANDING IN VIOLATION OF LAWS. Any person, including the owner, agent, consignee, or master of any vessel arriving in the United States from any foreign port or place, who shall knowingly sign on the ship's articles, or bring to the United States as one of the crew of such vessel, any alien, with intent to permit such alien to land in the United States in violation of the laws and treaties of the United States regulating the immigration of aliens, or who shall falsely and knowingly represent to the immigration authorities at the port of arrival that any such alien is a bona fide member of the crew, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $5,000, for which sum the said vessel shall be liable and may be seized and proceeded against by way of libel in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the offense. (Feb. 5, 1917, .. 29, Sec. 31, 39 Stat. 895.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 171. LISTS OF ALIENS EMPLOYED ON VESSELS ARRIVING FROM FOREIGN PORTS; REPORTS OF ALIENS ILLEGALLY LANDED. Upon arrival of any vessel in the United States from any foreign port or place it shall be the duty of the owner, agent, consignee, or master thereof to deliver to the principal inigration and naturalization officer in charge of the port of arrival lists containing the names of all aliens employed on such vessel, stating the positions they respectively hold in the ship's company, when and where they were respectively shipped or engaged, and specifying those to be paid off and discharged in the port of arrival; or lists containing so much of such information as the Secretary of Labor shall by regulation prescribe; and after the arrival of any such vessel it shall be the duty of such owner, agent, consignee, or master to report to such immigration and naturalization officer, in writing, as soon as discovered, all cases in which any such alien has illegally landed from the vessel, giving a description of such alien, together with any information likely to lead to his apprehension; and before the departure of any such vessel it shall be the duty of such owner, agent, consignee, or master to deliver to such immigration and naturalization officer a further list containing the names of all alion employees who were not employed thereon at the time of the arrival but who will leave port thereon at the time of her departure, and also the names of those, if any, who have been paid off and discharged, and of those, if any, who have deserted or landed; and in case of the failure of such owner, agent, consignee, or master so to deliver either of the said lists of such aliens arriving and departing, respectively, or so to report such cases of desertion or landing, such owner, agent, consignee, or master shall, if required by the Secretary of Labor, pay to the collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of $10 for each alien concerning whom correct lists are not delivered or a true report is not made as above required. No such vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such fine, and, in the event such fine is imposed, while it remains unpaid; nor shall such fine be remitted or refunded. Clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine. (Feb. 5, 1917, c. 29, Sec. 36, 39 Stat. 896; June 10, 1933, Ex. Or. 6166, Sec. 14.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 216. UNLAWFUL BRINGING OF ALIEN INTO UNITED STATES BY WATER; PENALTY; AMOUNT; CLEARANCE TO VESSELS; REMISSION OR REFUNDMENT. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, including any transportation company, or the owner, master, agent, charterer, or consignee of any vessel, to bring to the United States by water from any place outside thereof (other than foreign contiguous territory) (1) any

immigrant who does not have an unexpired immigration visa, or (2) any quota immigrant having an immigration visa the visa in which specifies him as a nonquota immigrant.

(b) If it appears to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that any immigrant has been so brought such person or transportation company, or the master, agent, owner, charterer, or consignee of any such vessel, shall pay to the collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of $1,000 for each immigrant so brought, and in addition a sum equal to that paid by such immigrant for his transportation from the initial point of departure, indicated in his ticket, to the port of arrival, such latter sum to be delivered by the collector of customs to the immigrant on whose account assessed. No vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the liability to the payment of such sums, or while such sums remain unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit of an amount sufficient to cover such sums, or of a bond with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof approved by the collector of customs.

(c) Such sums shall not be remitted or refunded, unless it appears to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that such person, and the owner, master, agent, charterer, and consignee of the vessel, prior to the departure of the vessel from the last port outside the United States, did not know, and could not have ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, (1) that the individual transported was an immigrant, if the fine was imposed for bringing an immigrant without an unexpired immigration visa, or (2) that the individual transported was a quota immigrant, if the fine was imposed for bringing a quota imdgrant the visa in whose immigration visa specified him as being a nonquota immigrant. (May 26, 1924, c. 190, Sec. 16, 43 Stat. 163.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 166. LANDING OF EXCLUDED SEAMEN PROHIBITED; TEMPORARY LANDING; DEPORTATION WITHIN THREE YEARS. No alien seaman excluded from admission into the United States under the immigration laws and employed on board any vessel arriving in the United States from any place outside thereof, shall be permitted to land in the United States, except temporarily for medical treatment, or pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe for the ultimate departure, removal, or deportation of such alien from the United States. Any alien seaman who shall land in a port of the United States contrary to the provisions of this subchapter shall be deemed to be unlawfully in the United States, and shall, at any time within three years thereafter, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and brought before a board of special inquiry for examination as to his qualifications for admission to the United States, and if not admitted said alien seaman shall be deported at the expense of the appropriation provided in section 156 of this title. (Feb. 5, 1917, c. 29, Sec. 34, 39 stat. 896; May 26, 1924, a. 190, Sec. 19, 43 Stat. 164.)

DEPORTATION OF ALIENS

TITLE 8, Sec. 154. IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION OF ALIENS BROUGHT IN IN VIOLATION OF LAW; COST OF MAINTENANCE AND RETURN. All aliens brought to this country in violation of law shall be immediately sent back, in accommodations of the same class in which they arrived, to the country whence they respectively came, on the vessels bringing them, unless in the opinion of the Secretary of Labor immediate deportation is not practicable or proper. The cost of their maintenance while on land, as well as the expense of the return of such aliens, shall be borne by the owner or owners of the vessels on which they respectively came. It shall be unlawful for any master, purser, person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee of any such vessel to refuse to receive back on board thereof, or on board of any other vessel owned or operated by the same interests, such aliens; or to fail to detain them thereon; or to refuse or fail to return them in the manner aforesaid to the foreign port from which they came; or to fail to pay the cost of their maintenance while on land; or to make any charge for the return of any such alien, or to take any security for the payment of such charge; or to take any consideration to be returned in case the alien is landed; or knowingly to bring to the United States any alien excluded or arrested and deported under any provision of law until such time as such alien may be lawfully entitled to reapply for admission to the United States; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that such master, purser, person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee has violated any of the foregoing provisions, or any of the provisions of section 151* of this title, such master, purser, person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee shall pay to the collector of customs of the district in which the port of arrival is located, or in which any vessel of the line may be found, the sum of $300 for each and every violation of any provision of said sections; and no vessel shall have clearance from any port of the United States while any such fine is unpaid, nor shall such fine be remitted or refunded: Provided, That clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit with the collector of customs of a sum sufficient to cover such fine. If the vessel by which any alien ordered deported came has left the United States and it is impracticable for any reason to deport the alien within a reasonable time by another vessel owned by the same interests, the cost of deportation may be paid by the Government and recovered by civil suit from any agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel: Provided further, That the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, may suspend, upon conditions to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, the deportation of any aliens found to have come in violation of any provision of this subchapter if, in his judgment, the testimony of such alien is necessary on behalf of the United States Government in the prosecution of offenders against any provision of this subchapter or other laws of the United States; and the cost of maintenance of any person so detained resulting from such suspension of deportation, and a witness fee in the sum of $1 per day for each day such person is so detained, may be paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of this subchapter, or such alien may be released under bond, in the penalty of not less than $500, with security approved by the Secretary of Labor, conditioned that such alien shall be produced when required as a witness and for deportation. No alien certified, as provided in section 152 (physical and mental examination) of this title, to be suffering from tubercu*Section 151 relates to inspection of aliens on arrival.

losis in any form, or from a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease other than one of quarantinable nature, shall be permitted to land for medical treatment thereof in any hospital in the United States, unless the Secretary of Labor is satisfied that to refuse treatment would be inhumane or cause unusual hardship or suffering, in which case the alien shall be treated in the hospital under the supervision of the immigration officials at the expense of the vessel transporting him: Provided further, That upon the certificate of an examining medical officer to the effect that the health or safety of an insane alien would be unduly imperiled by immediate deportation, such alien may, at the expense of the appropriation for the enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States be held for treatment until such time as such alien may, in the opinion of such medical officer, be safely deported: Provided further, That upon the certificate of an examining medical officer to the effect that a rejected alien is helpless from sickness, mental or physical disability, or infancy, if such alien is accompanied by another alien whose protection or guardianship is required by such rejected alien, such accompanying alien may also be excluded, and the master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel in which such alien and accompanying alien are brought shall be required to return said alien and accompanying alien in the same manner as vessels are required to return other rejected aliens. (Feb. 5, 1917, c. 29, Sec. 18, 39 Stat. 887; Feb. 27, 1925, c. 364, Title 4, 43 Stat. 1049; Mar. 4, 1929, c. 690, Sec. 1. (e), 45 Stat. 1551; June 10, 1933, Ex. Or. 6166, Sec. 14.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 155. DEPORTATION WITHIN CERTAIN TIME OF ALIENS ENTERING OR FOUND IN UNITED STATES IN VIOLATION OF LAW. At any time within five years after entry, any alien who at the time of entry was a member of one or more of the classes excluded by law; any alien who shall have entered or who shall be found in the United States in violation of this subchapter, or in violation of any other law of the United States; any alien who at any time after entry shall be found advocating or teaching the unlawful destruction of property, or advocating or teaching anarchy, or the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States or of all forms of law or the assassination of public officials; any alien who within five years after entry becomes a public charge from causes not affirmatively shown to have arisen subsequent to landing; except as hereinafter provided, any alien who, after May 1, 1917, is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude, committed within five years after the entry of the alien to the United States, or who is sentenced more than once to such a term of imprisonment because of conviction in this country of any crime involving moral turpitude, committed at any time after entry; any alien who shall be found an inmate of or connected with the management of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitution after such alien shall have entered the United States, or who shall receive, share in, or derive benefit from any part of the earnings of any prostitute; any alien who manages or is employed by, in, or in connection with any house of prostitution or music or dance hall or other place of amusement or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes, or where prostitutes gather, or who in any way assists any prostitute or protects or promises to protect from arrest any prostitute; any alien who shall import or attempt to import any person for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; any alien who, after being excluded and deported or arrested and deported as a prostitute, or as a procurer, or as having been connected with the business of prostitution or importation for prostitution or other immoral purposes in any of the ways hereinbefore specified, shall return to and enter the United States; any alien convicted and imprisoned for a violation of any of the provisions of section 138 of this title; any alien who was convicted, or who admits the commission, prior to entry of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; at any time within three years after entry, any alien who shall have entered the United States by water at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officials, or by land at any place other than one designated as a port of entry for aliens by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, or at any time not designated by immigration officials, or who enters without inspection, shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported. The marriage to an American citizen of a female of the sexually immoral classes the exclusion or deportation of which is prescribed by this subchapter shall not invest such female with United States citizenship if the marriage of such alien female shall be solemnized after her arrest or after the commission of acts which make her liable to deportation under this subchapter. The provision of this section respecting the deportation of aliens convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude shall not apply to one who has been pardoned, nor shall such deportation be made or directed if the court, or judge thereof, sentencing such alien for such crime shall, at the time of imposing judgment or passing sentence or within thirty days thereafter, due notice having first been given to representatives of the State, make a recommendation to the Secretary of Labor that such alien shall not be deported in pursuance of this subchapter; nor shall any alien convicted as aforesaid be deported until after the termination of his imprisonment. The provisions of this section, with the exceptions hereinbefore noted, shall be applicable to the classes of aliens therein mentioned irrespective of the time of their entry into the United States; and shall also apply to the cases of aliens who come to the mainland of the United States from the insular possessions thereof. Any person who shall be arrested under the provisions of this section, on the ground that he has entered or been found in the United States in violation of any other law thereof which imposes on such person the burden of proving his right to enter or remain, and who shall fail to establish the existence of the right claimed, shall be deported to the place specified in such other law. In every case where any person is ordered deported from the United States under the provisions of this subchapter, or of any law or treaty, the decision of the Secretary of Labor shall be final. (Feb. 5, 1917, c. 29, Sec. 19, 39 Stat. 889; June 10, 1933, Ex. Or. 6166, Sec. 14.)

TITLE 2, Sec. 20 (ALIEN REGISTRATION ACT, 1940.) Section 19 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 889; U. S. C., title 8, sec. 155), as amended, is amended by inserting, after "SEC. 19.",

the letter "(a)", and by adding at the end of such section the following new subsections:

"(b) Any alien of any of the classes specified in this subsection, in addition to aliens who are deportable under other provisions of law, shall, upon warrant of the Attorney General, be taken into custody and deported:

"(1) Any alien who, at any time within five years after entry, shall have, knowingly and for gain, encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien to enter or to try to enter the United States in violation of law.

"(2) Any alien who, at any time after entry, shall have on more than one occasion, knowingly and for gain, encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien or aliens to enter or to try to enter the United States in violation of law.

"(3) Any alien who, at any time after entry, shall have been convicted of possessing or carrying in violation of any law any weapon which shoots or is designed to shoot automatically or semi-automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, or a weapon commonly called a sawed-off shotgun.

"(4) Any alien who, at any time within five years after entry, shall have been convicted of violating the provisions of title 1 of the Alien Registration Act, 1940.

"(5) Any alien who, at any time after entry, shall have been convicted more than once of violating the provisions of title 1 of the Alien Registration Act, 1940.

No alien who is deportable under the provisions of paragraph (3), (4), or (5) of this subsection shall be deported until the termination of his imprisonment or the entry of an order releasing him on probation or parole. (Act of June 28, 1940, Public No. 670, 76th Cong., 3rd Sess.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 156a. DEPORTATION OF ALIENS ENGAGED IN NARCOTIC TRAFFIC. Any alien (except an addict who is not a dealer in, or peddler of, any of the narcotic drugs mentioned in this section) who, after February 18, 1931, shall be convicted for violation of or conspiracy to violate any statute of the United States or of any State, Territory, possession, or of the District of Columbia, taxing, prohibiting or regulating the manufacture, production, compounding, transportation, sale, exchange, dispensing, giving away, importation, or exportation of opium, coca leaves, heroin, marihuana, or any salt, derivative, or preparation of opium or coca leaves, shall be taken into custody and deported in manner provided in sections 155 and 156 of this title. (Feb. 18, 1931, c. 224, 46 stat. 1171; Act of June 28, 1940, Public No. 670, 76th Cong. 3rd Sess.)

TITLE 8, Sec. 157. DEPORTATION OF CERTAIN SPECIFIED ALIENS; ENUMERATION OF PERSONS TO BE DEPORTED; KANNER OF DEPORTATION; DECISION OF SECRETARY OF LABOR FINAL; READMISSION DENIED. Aliens of the following classes, in addition to those for whose expulsion from the United States provision is made in the existing law, shall upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into his custody and deported in the manner provided in sections 155 and 156 of this title, if the Secretary of Labor, after hearing, finds that such aliens are undesirable residents of the United States, to wit:

(1) All aliens who since August 1, 1914, have been or may hereafter be convicted of any violation or conspiracy to violate any of the following sections, the judgment on such conviction having become final, namely:

(a) Act June 15, 1917, chapter 30, Fortieth Statutes, 217, entitled "An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes", as amended by Act May 16, 1918, chapter 75, Fortieth Statutes 553, being sections 25, 27, 31 to 39, 98, 130 to 133, 252 to 255, 270, 362, and 611 to 633 of Title 18, sections 213, 220 to 222, 231 to 235, inclusive, of Title 22 and the provisions of chapter 4 of Title 50;

(b) Act October 6, 1917, chapter 83, Fortieth Statutes, 385, entitled "An Act to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the sale, manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes", being chapter 8 of Title 50;

(c) Act May 22, 1918, chapter 81, Fortieth Statutes, 559, entitled "An Act to prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety", being sections 223 to 226 of Title 22;

(d) Act April 20, 1918, chapter 59, Fortieth Statutes, 533, entitled "An Act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises, or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes", being chapter 6 of Title 50;

(e) Act May 18, 1917, chapter 15, Fortieth Statutes, 76, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States";

(f) Act February 14, 1917, chapter 64, Thirty-ninth Statutes, 919, entitled "An Act to punish persons who make threats against the President of the United States", being section 89 of Title 18;

(g) Act October 6, 1917, chapter 106, Fortieth Statutes, 411, entitled "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes", and any amendments thereto; (h) Section 6 of the Penal Code, being section 6 of Title 18;

(2) All aliens who have been or may hereafter be convicted of any offense against section 25 of Title 18 committed during the period of August 1, 1914, to April 6, 1917, or of a conspiracy occurring within said period to commit an offense under said section 25, or of any offense committed during said period against sections 1 to 6, and 15 of Title 15, in aid of a belligerent in the World War. In every case in which any such alien is ordered expelled or excluded from the United States under the provisions of this section the decision of the Secretary of Labor shall be final. All persons who shall be expelled under any of the provisions of this section shall be excluded from readmission into the United States. (May 10,

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