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8 U.S.C. § 1223 — Entry through or from foreign territory and adjacent islands
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**(a) Necessity of transportation contract** The Attorney General shall have power to enter into contracts with transportation lines for the inspection and admission of aliens coming to the United States from foreign territory or from adjacent islands. No such transportation line shall be allowed to land any such alien in the United States until and unless it has entered into any such contracts which may be required by the Attorney General.
**(b) Landing stations** Every transportation line engaged in carrying alien passengers for hire to the United States from foreign territory or from adjacent islands shall provide and maintain at its expense suitable landing stations, approved by the Attorney General, conveniently located at the point or points of entry. No such transportation line shall be allowed to land any alien passengers in the United States until such landing stations are provided, and unless such stations are thereafter maintained to the satisfaction of the Attorney General.
**(c) Landing agreements** The Attorney General shall have power to enter into contracts including bonding agreements with transportation lines to guarantee the passage through the United States in immediate and continuous transit of aliens destined to foreign countries. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, such aliens may not have their classification changed under [section 1258 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1258&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Definitions** As used in this section the terms “transportation line” and “transportation company” include, but are not limited to, the owner, charterer, consignee, or authorized agent operating any vessel or aircraft or railroad train bringing aliens to the United States,
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**(a) Necessity of transportation contract** The Attorney General shall have power to enter into contracts with transportation lines for the inspection and admission of aliens coming to the United States from foreign territory or from adjacent islands. No such transportation line shall be allowed to land any such alien in the United States until and unless it has entered into any such contracts which may be required by the Attorney General.
**(b) Landing stations** Every transportation line engaged in carrying alien passengers for hire to the United States from foreign territory or from adjacent islands shall provide and maintain at its expense suitable landing stations, approved by the Attorney General, conveniently located at the point or points of entry. No such transportation line shall be allowed to land any alien passengers in the United States until such landing stations are provided, and unless such stations are thereafter maintained to the satisfaction of the Attorney General.
**(c) Landing agreements** The Attorney General shall have power to enter into contracts including bonding agreements with transportation lines to guarantee the passage through the United States in immediate and continuous transit of aliens destined to foreign countries. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, such aliens may not have their classification changed under [section 1258 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1258&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Definitions** As used in this section the terms “transportation line” and “transportation company” include, but are not limited to, the owner, charterer, consignee, or authorized agent operating any vessel or aircraft or railroad train bringing aliens to the United States, to foreign territory, or to adjacent islands.
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There is created and established in the Department of Justice an Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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**(a) Removal of criminal aliens**
(1) **In general** — The Attorney General shall provide for the availability of special removal proceedings at certain Federal, State, and local correctional facilities for aliens convicted of any criminal offense covered in section 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), (B), (C), or (D) of this title, or any offense covered by [section 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1227/a/2/A/ii&num=0&edition=prelim) for which both predicate offenses are, without regard to the date of their commission, otherwise covered by [section 1227(a)(2)(A)(i) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1227/a/2/A/i&num=0&edition=prelim). Such proceedings shall be conducted in conformity with [section 1229a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1229a&num=0&edition=prelim) (except as otherwise provided in this section), and in a manner which eliminates the need for additional detention at any processing center of the Service and in a manner which assures expeditious removal following the end of the alien’s incarceration for the underlying sentence. Nothing in this section shall be construed to create any substantive or procedural right or benefit that is legally enforceable by any party against the United States or its agencies or officers or any other person.
(2) **Implementation** — With respect to an alien convicted of an aggravated felony who is taken into custody by the Attorney General pursuant to [section 1226(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1226/c&num=0&edition=prelim), the Attorney General shall, to the maximum extent practicable, detain a
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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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**(a)** The Secretary of Homeland Security may, under such conditions as he may prescribe, authorize a change from any nonimmigrant classification to any other nonimmigrant classification in the case of any alien lawfully admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant who is continuing to maintain that status and who is not inadmissible under [section 1182(a)(9)(B)(i) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182/a/9/B/i&num=0&edition=prelim) (or whose inadmissibility under such section is waived under [section 1182(a)(9)(B)(v) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182/a/9/B/v&num=0&edition=prelim)), except (subject to subsection (b)) in the case of—
(1) an alien classified as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (C), (D), (K), or (S) of [section 1101(a)(15) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1101/a/15&num=0&edition=prelim),
(2) an alien classified as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (J) of [section 1101(a)(15) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1101/a/15&num=0&edition=prelim) who came to the United States or acquired such classification in order to receive graduate medical education or training,
(3) an alien (other than an alien described in paragraph (2)) classified as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (J) of [section 1101(a)(15) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1101/a/15&num=0&edition=prelim) who is subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement of [section 1182(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182/e&num=0&edition=prelim) and has not
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**(a) Failure to report; penalties** It shall be the duty of every person, including the owners, masters, officers, and agents of vessels, aircraft, transportation lines, or international bridges or toll roads, other than transportation lines which may enter into a contract as provided in [section 1223 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1223&num=0&edition=prelim), bringing an alien to, or providing a means for an alien to come to, the United States (including an alien crewman whose case is not covered by [section 1284(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1284/a&num=0&edition=prelim)) to prevent the landing of such alien in the United States at a port of entry other than as designated by the Attorney General or 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 liable to a penalty to be imposed by the Attorney General of $3,000 for each such violation, which may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, be remitted or mitigated by him in accordance with such proceedings as he shall by regulation prescribe. Such penalty shall be a lien upon the vessel or aircraft whose owner, master, officer, or agent violates the provisions of this section, and such vessel or aircraft may be libeled therefor in the appropriate United States court.
**(b) Prima facie evidence** 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.
**(c) Liabil
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TITLE 8—ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
§ 1223
years’ professional experience may be employed
for such service upon such terms as may be pre-
scribed by the Attorney General. Aliens (includ-
ing alien crewmen) arriving at ports of the
United States shall be examined by at least one
such medical officer or civil surgeon under such
administrative regulations as the Attorney Gen-
eral may prescribe, and under medical regula-
tions prepared by the Secretary of Health and
Human Services. Medical officers of the United
States Public Health Service who have had spe-
cial training in the diagnosis of insanity and
mental defects shall be detailed for duty or em-
ployed at such ports of entry as the Attorney
General may designate, and such medical offi-
cers shall be provided with suitable facilities for
the detention and examination of all arriving
aliens who it is suspected may be inadmissible
under paragraph (1) of section 1182(a) of this
title, and the services of interpreters shall be
provided for such examination. Any alien cer-
tified under paragraph (1) of section 1182(a) of
this title, may appeal to a board of medical offi-
cers of the United States Public Health Service,
which shall be convened by the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, and any such alien
may introduce before such board one expert
medical witness at his own cost and expense.
(c) Certification of certain helpless aliens
If an examining medical officer determines
that an alien arriving in the United States is in-
admissible, is helpless from sickness, mental or
physical disability, or infancy, and is accom-
panied by another alien whose protection or
guardianship may be required, the officer may
certify such fact for purposes of applying section
1182(a)(10)(B) of this title wi
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