Ex parte Jung Sew

HAZED, District Judge.

This matter comes before me on habeas corpus to determine the legality of the action of the Acting Secretary of Labor in deporting the aliens, Jung Sew and Jung Jim, to China. The relators were apprehended by government officials while surreptitiously entering the United States from Canada at Buffalo, N. Y., on Juné 2, 1914, and, as claimed by the United States, in violation of the Immigration Act of Congress, approved February 20, 1907, a's subsequently amended. The principal objection of counsel for relators to the removal proceedings is that they were instituted under…