Mok Nuey Tau v. White
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. _ _ Habeas corpus proceedings by Mok Nuey Tau against Edward White, Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of San Francisco. From an order denying his petition, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GIDBERT, Circuit Judge.
On November 9, 1915, the appellant, then nine years of age was admitted to the United States as the foreign-born son of Mock Juck, who was a native-born citizen of the United States residing at Oakland, Cal. A month after his arrival he went from San Francisco to the state of Alabama, where seven months later he was arrested on the executive warrant of the Secretary of Dabor and was ordered deported on the ground that he was an alien found in the United States in violation of the act of February 20, 1907, as amended by the act of March 26, 1910 (36 Stat. 263, c. 128…
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