1994 US Code
Title 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 11 - NATIONALITY
SUBCHAPTER II_2 - SUBCHAPTER II-IMMIGRATION
Part IV - Provisions Relating to Entry and Exclusion
Sec. 1222 - Detention of aliens for observation and examination upon arrival

For the purpose of determining whether aliens (including alien crewmen) arriving at ports of the United States belong to any of the classes excluded by this chapter, by reason of being afflicted with any of the diseases or mental or physical defects or disabilities set forth in section 1182(a) of this title, or whenever the Attorney General has received information showing that any aliens are coming from a country or have embarked at a place where any of such diseases are prevalent or epidemic, such aliens shall be detained by the Attorney General for a sufficient time to enable the immigration officers and medical officers to subject such aliens to observation and an examination sufficient to determine whether or not they belong to the excluded classes.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 4, §232, 66 Stat. 196; Oct. 18, 1986, Pub. L. 99–500, §101(b) [title II, §206(a), formerly §206], 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–56, renumbered §206(a), Oct. 24, 1988, Pub. L. 100–525, §4(b)(1), 102 Stat. 2615; Oct. 30, 1986, Pub. L. 99–591, §101(b) [title II, §206], 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–56; Oct. 24, 1988, Pub. L. 100–525, §4(b)(2), (d), 102 Stat. 2615.)

1988—Pub. L. 100–525 amended Pub. L. 99–500 and 99–591. See 1986 Amendment note below.

1986—Pub. L. 99–500, §101(b) [title II, §206(a), formerly §206], as redesignated and amended by Pub. L. 100–525, §4(b)(1), (2), substituted “by the Attorney General” for “on board the vessel or at the airport of arrival of the aircraft bringing them, unless the Attorney General directs their detention in a United States immigration station or other place specified by him at the expense of such vessel or aircraft except as otherwise provided in this chapter, as circumstances may require or justify,”.

Pub. L. 99–591, §101(b) [title II, §206], a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500, §101(b) [title II, §206(a)], was repealed by Pub. L. 100–525, §4(d), effective as of Oct. 30, 1986.

Amendment by section 4(b)(1), (2) of Pub. L. 100–525 effective as if included in enactment of Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1987 (as contained in section 101(b) of Pub. L. 99–500), see section 4(c) of Pub. L. 100–525, set out as a note under section 1227 of this title.

Definition of alien, Attorney General, crewman, and immigration officer, see section 1101 of this title.