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Fingerprinting of New Immigrants to Begin June 14

June 6, 1940
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Attorney General Robert H. Jackson said today that the Department of Justice would begin fingerprinting all aliens entering the country, beginning June 14, as the first step in its anti-fifth column measures since it was placed in charge of the Bureau of Immigration.

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