Ex parte Lew Lin Shew

DOOLING, District Judge.

This matter was heard upon the petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a return filed thereto, by which all the facts were presented to the court. It appears that Lew Lin Shew, a Chinese alien, was duly admitted at the port of San Francisco, on April 24, 1912, as the minor son of a resident Chinese merchant. He was later arrested on a warrant, dated March 3, 1914, which warrant charged:

“That the said alien is unlawfully in the United States, in that he entered without inspection under the Immigration Law (section 20), and in that he entered in violation of another…