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[CITE: 8USC1328]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                  Part VIII--General Penalty Provisions
 
Sec. 1328. Importation of alien for immoral purpose

    The importation into the United States of any alien for the purpose 
of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, is forbidden. Whoever 
shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import into the 
United States any alien for the purpose of prostitution or for any other 
immoral purpose, or shall hold or attempt to hold any alien for any such 
purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation, or shall keep, 
maintain, control, support, employ, or harbor in any house or other 
place, for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, 
any alien, in pursuance of such illegal importation, shall be fined 
under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. The trial 
and punishment of offenses under this section may be in any district to 
or into which such alien is brought in pursuance of importation by the 
person or persons accused, or in any district in which a violation of 
any of the provisions of this section occurs. In all prosecutions under 
this section, the testimony of a husband or wife shall be admissible and 
competent evidence against each other.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 8, Sec. 278, 66 Stat. 230; Pub. 
L. 101-649, title V, Sec. 543(b)(5), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 5059.)


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-649 substituted ``shall be fined under title 18, 
or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both'' for ``shall, in every 
such case, be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be 
punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 and by imprisonment for a 
term of not more than ten years''.


                    Effective Date of 1990 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 101-649 applicable to actions taken after Nov. 
29, 1990, see section 543(c) of Pub. L. 101-649, set out as a note under 
section 1221 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1227 of this title; title 10 
section 374; title 18 sections 1961, 2516.
