United States ex rel. Ng. Sam v. Redfern
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Habeas corpus by the United States, on relation of Ng. Sam and others, to procure relators’ discharge from imprisonment under deportation warrants.
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, District Judge.
In this case the relators petition for writs of habeas corpus to release from the custody of the immigration authorities four Chinese persons, named, respectively, Ng. Sam, Ng. Tin, Ng. Sing, and Ye.e Ngall, who were in transit to China via San Francisco under departmental warrants of deportation. The main contention of petitioners is that the Secretary of Labor found that the *549said Chinese had entered the United States from Canada, and therefore the Secretary of Labor exceeded his authority in ordering them deported to China. A similar writ was' asked for in the case of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Chin Yow v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- United States v. RuizCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1913
- Redfern v. HalpertCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1911
3Cited by2 opinions
- Ex parte Lam PuiDistrict Court, E.D. North Carolina · 1914
- Ex parte Jung SewDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 1914