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[CITE: 50USC21]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 3--ALIEN ENEMIES
 
Sec. 21. Restraint, regulation, and removal

    Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any 
foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is 
perpetrated, attempted or threatened against the territory of the United 
States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes 
public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or 
subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of 
fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not 
actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, 
secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in 
any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to 
direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, 
toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the 
restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon 
what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the 
removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United 
States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any 
other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the 
public safety.

(R.S. Sec. 4067; Apr. 16, 1918, ch. 55, 40 Stat. 531.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4067 derived from act July 6, 1798, ch. 66, Sec. 1, 1 
Stat. 577.


                               Amendments

    1918--Act Apr. 16, 1918, struck out provision restricting this 
section to males.


                       World War II Proclamations

    The following proclamations under this section were issued during 
World War II:
        Proc. No. 2525, Dec. 7, 1941, 6 F.R. 6321, 55 Stat. Pt. 2, 1700.
        Proc. No. 2526, Dec. 8, 1941, 6 F.R. 6323, 55 Stat. Pt. 2, 1705.
        Proc. No. 2527, Dec. 8, 1941, 6 F.R. 6324, 55 Stat. Pt. 2, 1707.
        Proc. No. 2533, Dec. 29, 1941, 7 F.R. 55, 55 Stat. Pt. 2, 1714.
        Proc. No. 2537, Jan. 14, 1942, 7 F.R. 329, 56 Stat. Pt. 2, 1933, 
            revoked by Proc. No. 2678, Dec. 29, 1945, 11 F.R. 221, 60 
            Stat. Pt. 2, 1336.
        Proc. No. 2563, July 17, 1942, 7 F.R. 5535, 56 Stat. Pt. 2, 
            1970.
        Proc. No. 2655, July 14, 1945, 10 F.R. 8947, 59 Stat. Pt. 2, 
            870.
        Proc. No. 2674, Dec. 7, 1945, 10 F.R. 14945, 59 Stat. Pt. 2, 
            889.
        Proc. No. 2685, Apr. 11, 1946, 11 F.R. 4079, 60 Stat. Pt. 2, 
            1342, set out as a note preceding section 1 of Appendix to 
            this title.


                        World War I Proclamations

    Proclamations issued under this chapter during the years 1917 and 
1918 will be found in 40 Stat. 1651, 1716, 1730, and 1772.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 22 of this title; sections 9, 
34, 1981, 1982 of Appendix to this title; title 5 section 8332.
