Berrebi v. Crossman

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

By his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the appellant is contesting a deportation order issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States Department of Justice. The court below denied the petition and ordered him deported. It was stipulated that the petitioner was a member of the Communist Party of Tunisia from 1937 to 1939, and that he was lawfully admitted into the United States for permanent residence in 1948. The basis for the deportation order rests solely upon the petitioner’s membership in said party during the years mentioned. The…