United States Ex Rel. Yaris v. Esperdy, Acting District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The relator-appellant is an alien who is presently detained on an immigration warrant without bail at Ellis Island, N. Y. This is an appeal from the dismissal of a writ of habeas corpus challenging the legality of appellant’s detention pending a determination as to his deportability.

He was taken into custody on July 6, 1950 on an immigration warrant, dated July 5, 1950, charging that he was unlawfully in the United States and subject to deportation on the ground, among others, “that prior to, at the time of, and after entry into the United States, he was a member of the…