United States ex rel. Ludwig v. Watkins

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

By writ of habeas corpus the relator sought release from custody by the respondent who was holding him at Ellis Island for deportation to Germany pursuant to a warrant of deportation, dated June 30, 1947, *457which was issued on the ground that he was an immigrant not in possession of an unexpired immigration visa. At the hearing upon the respondent’s oral return to the writ the following facts were stipulated: The relator is a native of Germany. About 1914 he went to Nicaragua where he remained until 1942, when ho was brought to the United States under armed guard on a United…