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OCR Page 1 of 6master copy. - D.H.S
A BILL
To amend section 8 of the Inmigration Act of 1917 and the Act of February
27, 1925, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That section 8 of the Inmigration
Act of 1917 (39 Stat. 880; 8 U.S.C. 144), is hereby amended to read:
"Sec. 8. (a) Any person including the owner, operator, pilot, master,
commanding officer, agent or consignee of any means of transportation who--
(1) brings into or lands in the United States, by any means
of transportation or otherwise, or attempts, by himself or through
another, to bring into or land in the United States, by any means
of transportation or otherwise;
(2) Knowing that he is in the United States in violation of law,
transports or moves, or attempts to transport or move, within the
United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance
of such violation of law;
(3) wilfully or knowingly conceals, harbors, or shields from
detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection
in any place, including any building or any means of transportation; of
(4) wilfully or knowingly encourages or induces, or attempts to
encourage or induce, either directly or indirectly, the entry into the
United States of
any alien, including an alien seaman, not duly admitted by an immigra-
tion officer or not lawfully entitled to enter or reside within the
United States under terms of this act or any other law relating to the
immigration or expulsion of aliens, shall be guilty of a felony, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000
or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both, for each
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