Ex Parte Gregoire

ST. SURE, District Judge.

Petitioner, detained as an enemy alien by the District Director of Immigration and Naturalization for the port of San Francisco, seeks release by writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he is a French citizen and therefore wrongfully deprived of his liberty.

Petitioner was taken into custody under a warrant of arrest issued by the Attorney General of the United States, by order of the President, on January 2, 1942. Title 50 U. S. C. A. § 21; Presidential Proclamation No. 2526, 55 Stat. 1705, issued December 8, 1941. The Government moves that the petition be denied and…