McCandless v. United States ex rel. Pantoja

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns the deportation of Avelino Pantoja, a native of Mexico, and his wife. After hearing a habeas corpus proceeding wherein he raised the question of the legality of his deportation, the court below discharged him from custody. Thereupon the Commissioner of Immigration took this appeal.

The facts are that Pantoja arrived in the United States from Mexico as a seaman on the steamship Monterey on October 3, 1919. Ho was duly examined by the United States officers at the' port of New York, and was discharged from the vessel by the United States Commissioner.

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