United States ex rel. Campos de Jerez v. Esperdy

Appellant, asserting that an order directing her deportation is invalid, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. The basis for the petition was the Attorney General’s refusal to grant her application to waive in advance a ground of excluda-bility. The district court held that such a waiver was available only to aliens outside the United States and dismissed the writ. This appeal followed.

Appellant, an alien, entered the United States in 1957. In 1958 she was convicted in New York City of a crime involving moral turpitude and was sentenced to one year imprisonment. Subsequently she was ordered…