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18 U.S.C. § 1351 — Fraud in foreign labor contracting
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**(a) Work Inside the United States.—** Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the United States or causes another person to recruit, solicit, or hire a person outside the United States, or attempts to do so, for purposes of employment in the United States by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises regarding that employment shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
**(b) Work Outside the United States.—** Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the United States or causes another person to recruit, solicit, or hire a person outside the United States, or attempts to do so, for purposes of employment performed on a United States Government contract performed outside the United States, or on a United States military installation or mission outside the United States or other property or premises outside the United States owned or controlled by the United States Government, by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises regarding that employment, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
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**(a) Work Inside the United States.—** Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the United States or causes another person to recruit, solicit, or hire a person outside the United States, or attempts to do so, for purposes of employment in the United States by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises regarding that employment shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
**(b) Work Outside the United States.—** Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the United States or causes another person to recruit, solicit, or hire a person outside the United States, or attempts to do so, for purposes of employment performed on a United States Government contract performed outside the United States, or on a United States military installation or mission outside the United States or other property or premises outside the United States owned or controlled by the United States Government, by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises regarding that employment, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
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**(a) Destruction, Concealment, Removal, Confiscation, or Possession of Immigration Documents.—** It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly destroy, conceal, remove, confiscate, or possess, an actual or purported passport or other immigration document of another individual—
(1) in the course of violating [section 1351 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1351&num=0&edition=prelim) or section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ([8 U.S.C. 1324](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1324&num=0&edition=prelim));
(2) with intent to violate [section 1351 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1351&num=0&edition=prelim) or section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ([8 U.S.C. 1324](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1324&num=0&edition=prelim)); or
(3) in order to, without lawful authority, maintain, prevent, or restrict the labor of services of the individual.
**(b) Penalty.—** Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both.
**(c) Obstruction.—** Any person who knowingly obstructs, attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section, shall be subject to the penalties described in subsection (b).
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**(a) Requirement** The head of an executive agency may not provide or enter into a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement if the estimated value of the services required to be performed under the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement outside the United States exceeds $500,000, unless a duly designated representative of the recipient of such grant, contract, or cooperative agreement certifies to the contracting or grant officer prior to receiving an award and on an annual basis thereafter, after having conducted due diligence, that—
(1) the recipient has implemented a plan to prevent the activities described in [section 7104(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7104/g&num=0&edition=prelim), as amended by section 1702, and is in compliance with that plan;
(2) the recipient has implemented procedures to prevent any activities described in such [section 7104(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7104/g&num=0&edition=prelim) and to monitor, detect, and terminate any subcontractor, subgrantee, or employee of the recipient engaging in any activities described in such section; and
(3) to the best of the representative’s knowledge, neither the recipient, nor any subcontractor or subgrantee of the recipient or any agent of the recipient or of such a subcontractor or subgrantee, is engaged in any of the activities described in such section.
**(b) Limitation** Any plan or procedures implemented pursuant to subsection (a) shall be appropriate to the size and complexity of the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement and to the nature and scope of its activities, including the number of non-United States citizens expected to be employed.
**(c) Disclosure** Th
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**(a) Liability** Excluding section 1706, nothing in this title shall be construed to supersede, enlarge, or diminish the common law or statutory liabilities of any grantee, subgrantee, contractor, subcontractor, or other party covered by section 106(g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ([22 U.S.C. 7104(g)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7104/g&num=0&edition=prelim)), as amended by section 1702.
**(b) Authority of Department of Justice** Nothing in this title shall be construed as diminishing or otherwise modifying the authority of the Attorney General to investigate activities covered by this title.
**(c) Implementation and effective dates**
(1) **Contracting requirements**
(A) Not later than 270 days after January 2, 2013, the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be amended to carry out the requirements of sections 1702, 1703, and 1704(c), and the second sentence of section 1704(a)(1), of this title.
(B) The requirements of sections 1702, 1703, and 1704(c), and the second sentence of section 1704(a)(1), of this title, shall apply to grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements entered into on or after the date that is 270 days after January 2, 2013, and to task and delivery orders awarded on or after such date pursuant to contracts entered before, on, or after such date.
(2) **Investigative and procedural requirements** — Federal agencies shall implement the requirements of sections 1704, 1705, and 1707 (other than subsection (c) of section 1704) not later than 90 days after January 2, 2013.
(3) **Criminal law changes** — The amendments made by section 1706 shall take effect upon the date of enactment and shall apply to conduct taking place on or after such date.
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**(a)** As used in this chapter—
(1) The term “administrator” means the official designated by the Secretary of State pursuant to [section 1104(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1104/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The term “advocates” includes, but is not limited to, advises, recommends, furthers by overt act, and admits belief in.
(3) The term “alien” means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.
(4) The term “application for admission” has reference to the application for admission into the United States and not to the application for the issuance of an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa.
(5) The term “Attorney General” means the Attorney General of the United States.
(6) The term “border crossing identification card” means a document of identity bearing that designation issued to an alien who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or to an alien who is a resident in foreign contiguous territory, by a consular officer or an immigration officer for the purpose of crossing over the borders between the United States and foreign contiguous territory in accordance with such conditions for its issuance and use as may be prescribed by regulations. Such regulations shall provide that (A) each such document include a biometric identifier (such as the fingerprint or handprint of the alien) that is machine readable and (B) an alien presenting a border crossing identification card is not permitted to cross over the border into the United States unless the biometric identifier contained on the card matches the appropriate biometric characteristic of the alien.
(7) The term “clerk of court” means a clerk of a naturalization court.
(8) The terms “Commissioner” and “Deputy Commissioner” mean the Co
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1352
all the requirements set forth in this section
shall be fined not more than $5,000,000, or im-
prisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(Added Pub. L. 107–204, title IX, § 906(a), July 30,
2002, 116 Stat. 806.)
§ 1351. Fraud in foreign labor contracting
(a) WORK INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.—Whoever
knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits,
solicits, or hires a person outside the United
States or causes another person to recruit, so-
licit, or hire a person outside the United States,
or attempts to do so, for purposes of employ-
ment in the United States by means of materi-
ally false or fraudulent pretenses, representa-
tions or promises regarding that employment
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for
not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) WORK OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.—Who-
ever knowingly and with intent to defraud re-
cruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the
United States or causes another person to re-
cruit, solicit, or hire a person outside the United
States, or attempts to do so, for purposes of em-
ployment performed on a United States Govern-
ment contract performed outside the United
States, or on a United States military installa-
tion or mission outside the United States or
other property or premises outside the United
States owned or controlled by the United States
Government, by means of materially false or
fraudulent pretenses, representations, or prom-
ises regarding that employment, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned for not more than
5 years, or both.
(Added Pub. L. 110–457, title II, § 222(e)(2), Dec.
23, 2008, 122 Stat. 5070; amended Pub. L. 112–239,
div. A, title XVII, § 1706(a), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat.
2097.)
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