Chapter 224. To provide for the deportation of aliens convicted and sentenced for violation of any law regulating traffic in narcotics
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CHAP. 224.— An Act To provide for the deportation of aliens convicted and sentenced for violation of any law regulating traffic in narcotics. February 18, 1931.[[H. R. 3394](/us/bill/71/hr/3394).][[Public, No. 683](/us/pl/71/683).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That any alien Immigration Act of 1917, amendment.Deportation of aliens convicted of illegal traffic in narcotics.(except an addict who is not a dealer in, or peddler of, any of the narcotic drugs mentioned in this Act) who, after the enactment of this Act, shall be convicted and sentenced for violation of or conspiracy Vol. 39, p. 889;
Vol. 42, p. 597, amended.[U. S. C., p. 635](/us/usc/p635).to violate any statute of the United States taxing, prohibiting, or regulating the manufacture, production, compounding, transportation, sale, exchange, dispensing, giving away, importation, or exportation of opium, coca leaves, heroin, or any salt, derivative, or preparation of opium or coca leaves, shall be taken into custody and deported in manner provided in sections 19 and 20 of the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States.
” Approved, February 18, 1931.