Section 1
SECTION 1. Section six of Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred and thirteen is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 6. The examination of aliens concerning their right to enter or remain in the Philippines shall be performed by Immigrant Inspectors, with the advice of medical authorities in appropriate cases. Immigrant inspectors are authorized to exclude any alien not properly documented as required by this Act, admit any alien complying with the applicable provisions of the immigration laws and to enforce the immigration laws and regulations prescribed thereunder. "Immigrant Inspectors are also empowered to administer oaths, to take and consider evidence concerning the rights of any alien to enter or reside in the Philippines, and to go abroad and search for aliens on any vessel of other conveyance in which they believe aliens are being brought into the Philippines. Immigrant Inspectors shall have the power to arrest, without warrant, any alien who in their presence or view is entering or is still in the course of entering the Philippines in violation of immigration laws or regulations prescribed thereunder."