8 U.S.C. § 1358 — Local jurisdiction over immigrant stations
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This section requires immigrant-station officers to admit proper State and local officers and recognizes their jurisdiction there.
The officers in charge of immigrant* stations must let the proper State* and local officers enter the stations. Those officers must be responsible for enforcing the laws of the State or Territory where the station is located. They may preserve the peace and arrest people for crimes under State or Territorial law. For this section, those State and local officers and the State and local courts have jurisdiction over the stations.
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.
Source credit: (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 9, § 288, 66 Stat. 234.)
- 1952Enacted · Act of June 27, 1952, ch. 477 · 66 Stat. 234
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