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56190/101 56190/25-B MEMORANDUM RE S.1851, PASSED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN AMENDED FORM FEBRUARY 26, 1952 Subsection (c) of section 1 of the bill, as passed by the House of Representatives, reads: "(c) When the Attorney General or any district director or any assistant district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service has information indicating a reasonable probability that in any designated lands or other property aliens are illegally within the United States, he may obtain a warrant under oath from a court of competent jurisdiction authorizing the immigration officer named therein to go upon or within such designated lands or other property other than a dwelling in which the warrant states there may be aliens illegally within the United States, for the purpose of interro- gating such aliens concerning their right to enter or to be or remain in the United States. Such warrant shall state therein the time of day or night for its use and the period of its validity which in no case shall be for more than thirty days." The same provision, as the bill was originally passed by the Senate on February 5, 1952, read: "(c) When the Attorney General or any district director or any assistant district director of the Immigration and Natural- ization Service has information indicating a reasonable prob- ability that in any designated lands or other property aliens

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