(superseded by No. 2685)
Removal of Alien Enemies

WHEREAS section 4067 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (50 U.S.C.
21) makes provision relative to the restraint and removal from the United States of
alien enemies in the interest of the public safety;

WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolutions approved by the President on
December 8 and 11, 1941, and June 5, 1942, declared the existence of a state of war
between the United States on the one hand and Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria,
Hungary, and Rumania on the other hand;

WHEREAS in accordance with Resolution XVII of the Conference of Foreign
Ministers at Rio de Janeiro adopted on January 28, 1942, and subsequently by
undertakings based upon Resolution XX of the Emergency Advisory Committee for
Political Defense adopted at Montevideo on May 21, 1943, there has been assumed by
the Government of the United States responsibility for the restraint and repatriation
of certain dangerous alien enemies sent to the United States from other of the
American republics in the interest of the security of the Western Hemisphere;

WHEREAS by Resolution VII of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of
War and Peace adopted at Mexico City on March 8, 1945, the American republics
recommended the adoption of measures to prevent any person whose deportation was
deemed necessary for reasons of security of the continent from further residing in this
hemisphere, if such residence would be prejudicial to the future security or welfare of
the Americas;

WHEREAS I find it necessary in the light of the commitments of the
Government and in the interest of national defense and public safety to prescribe
regulations additional and supplemental to all other regulations affecting the restraint
and removal of alien enemies in order to cover the case of the persons above referred
to:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of
America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
of the United States and aforesaid section of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, do hereby prescribe and proclaim the following regulations, additional and
supplemental to all other regulations affecting the restraint and removal of alien
enemies:

All alien enemies now within the continental limits of the United States (1)
who were sent here from other American republics for restraint and repatriation
pursuant to international commitments of the United States Government and for the
security of the United States and its associated powers and (2) who are within the
territory of the United States without admission under the immigration laws are, if
their continued residence in the Western Hemisphere is deemed by the Secretary of
State prejudicial to the future security or welfare of the Americas as prescribed in
Resolution VII of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace,
subject upon the order of the Secretary of State to removal to destinations outside the
limits of the Western Hemisphere in territory of the enemy governments to which or to
the principles of which they have adhered. The Department of Justice and all other
appropriate agencies of United States Government are directed to render assistance to
the Secretary of State in the prompt effectuation of such orders of removal.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 8th day of September in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five and of the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and seventieth.

By the President: Harry S Truman

Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State