Wong Chung v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California; Oscar A. Trippet, Judge. Proceeding for deportation by the United States against Wong Chung. From an order of deportation, made by the District Court^ defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DIETRICH, District Judge.
The appellant is a person of Chinese descent, who admittedly is in the United States without right, unless, as he claims, he was born in this country. Having been apprehended for deportation pursuant to the provisions of the Chinese Exclusion Acts (27 Stat. 25; 28 Stat. 7), the burden was upon him to establish his nativity “to the satisfaction” of a judge or commissioner. Section 3, Act May 5, 1892 (Comp. St. 1916, § 4317). The commissioner found against him, and upon appeal, after a trial de novo, the District Judge reached the same conclusion, and accordingly…
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