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[CITE: 8USC1252c]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                 Part V--Adjustment and Change of Status
 
Sec. 1252c. Authorizing State and local law enforcement 
        officials to arrest and detain certain illegal aliens
        

(a) In general

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent permitted 
by relevant State and local law, State and local law enforcement 
officials are authorized to arrest and detain an individual who--
        (1) is an alien illegally present in the United States; and
        (2) has previously been convicted of a felony in the United 
    States and deported or left the United States after such conviction,

but only after the State or local law enforcement officials obtain 
appropriate confirmation from the Immigration and Naturalization Service 
of the status of such individual and only for such period of time as may 
be required for the Service to take the individual into Federal custody 
for purposes of deporting or removing the alien from the United States.

(b) Cooperation

    The Attorney General shall cooperate with the States to assure that 
information in the control of the Attorney General, including 
information in the National Crime Information Center, that would assist 
State and local law enforcement officials in carrying out duties under 
subsection (a) of this section is made available to such officials.

(Pub. L. 104-132, title IV, Sec. 439, Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1276.)

                          Codification

    This section was enacted as part of the Antiterrorism and Effective 
Death Penalty Act of 1996, and not as part of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.
