United States ex rel. Kwong Hai Chew v. Shaughnessy

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner has been detained by the immigration authorities without bail since *51March 1951. For more than two years of that time he was denied information as to the nature of the charges upon which his detention was based. He had been ordered excluded without a hearing as an alien whose entry was deemed prejudicial to the public interest1 pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 175.-57(b).2 This aspect of relator’s matter was passed upon by the Supreme Court of the United States,3 which held that such detention was not authorized by that regulation.

Chew is a native and citizen of…