Ex parte Leong Shee

RUDKIN, District Judge.

This case involves the construction of section 22 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 4289%Z). Section 3 of that act (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 42891/4b) excludes from admission into the United States persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease. Section 22 reads as follows:

“That whenever an alien shall have been naturalized or shall have taken up his permanent residence in this country, and thereafter shall send for his wife or minor children to join him, and said wife or any…