Boutilier v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

The petitioner, an alien, has been ordered deported to Canada as one who upon entry into this country was a homosexual and therefore “afflicted with psychopathic personality” and excludable under § 212 (a) (4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 66 Stat. 182, 8 U. S. C. § 1182 (a)(4).* Petitioner's appeal from the *119finding of the Special Inquiry Officer was dismissed by the Board of Immigration Appeals, without opinion, and his petition for review in the Court of Appeals was dismissed, with one judge dissenting. 363 F. 2d 488. It held that the term “psychopathic personality,” as…