Wallis v. United States ex rel. Ng Sam
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Habeas corpus by the United States, on the relation of Ng Sam, Yee Ngau, Ng Tin, and Ng Sing, against Joseph H. Wallis, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New Orleans, to obtain the release of the named Chinese persons, from deportation warrants in proceedings under the Immigration Act of 1907, as amended.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Habeas corpus by the United States, on the relation of Ng Sam, Yee Ngau, Ng Tin, and Ng Sing, against Joseph H. Wallis, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New Orleans, to obtain the release of the named Chinese persons, from deportation warrants in proceedings under the Immigration Act of 1907, as amended. From the orders of the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, making the writs of habeas corpus absolute and discharging the re-lators,…
1Opinion of the Court
GRUBB, District Judge.
The right of the appellant to detain the relators, under deportation warrants issued by the Secretary of Labor, is questiQned by the writs. It was conceded by counsel for tire rela-tors, in this court but not in the court below, that there was evidence submitted to the Secretary of Labor, in the case of each of the rela-tors, which tended to support his finding that the relators were aliens, who had entered this country from Canada without inspection and in violation of the thirty-sixth section of the Immigration Act of February 20, 1907, as amended by Act March 26,…
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