US Code Title 8 Section 1329

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    8 USC Sec. 1329                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
    CHAPTER 12 - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
    SUBCHAPTER II - IMMIGRATION
    Part VIII - General Penalty Provisions

HEAD

    Sec. 1329. Jurisdiction of district courts

STATUTE

      The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction
    of all causes, civil and criminal, brought by the United States
    that arise under the provisions of this subchapter. It shall be the
    duty of the United States attorney of the proper district to
    prosecute every such suit when brought by the United States.
    Notwithstanding any other law, such prosecutions or suits may be
    instituted at any place in the United States at which the violation
    may occur or at which the person charged with a violation under
    section 1325 or 1326 of this title may be apprehended. No suit or
    proceeding for a violation of any of the provisions of this
    subchapter shall be settled, compromised, or discontinued without
    the consent of the court in which it is pending and any such
    settlement, compromise, or discontinuance shall be entered of
    record with the reasons therefor. Nothing in this section shall be
    construed as providing jurisdiction for suits against the United
    States or its agencies or officers.

SOURCE

    (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 8, Sec. 279, 66 Stat. 230;
    Pub. L. 104-208, div. C, title III, Sec. 381(a), Sept. 30, 1996,
    110 Stat. 3009-650.)

AMENDMENTS

      1996 - Pub. L. 104-208, Sec. 381(a)(2), inserted at end "Nothing
    in this section shall be construed as providing jurisdiction for
    suits against the United States or its agencies or officers."
      Pub. L. 104-208, Sec. 381(a)(1), amended first sentence
    generally. Prior to amendment, first sentence read as follows: "The
    district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction of all
    causes, civil and criminal, arising under any of the provisions of
    this subchapter."
                     EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1996 AMENDMENT
      Section 381(b) of div. C of Pub. L. 104-208 provided that: "The
    amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall
    apply to actions filed after the date of the enactment of this Act
    [Sept. 30, 1996]."