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[CITE: 8USC1644]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
     CHAPTER 14--RESTRICTING WELFARE AND PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR ALIENS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1644. Communication between State and local government 
        agencies and Immigration and Naturalization Service
        
    Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, 
no State or local government entity may be prohibited, or in any way 
restricted, from sending to or receiving from the Immigration and 
Naturalization Service information regarding the immigration status, 
lawful or unlawful, of an alien in the United States.

(Pub. L. 104-193, title IV, Sec. 434, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2275.)
