President of United States ex rel. Feretic v. Shaughnessy

McGOHEY, District Judge.

Relator, a native of Jugoslavia, is being detained by respondent pending execution of an order and warrant of deportation. By this writ he seeks judicial review of the denial on May 18, 1954 of a stay of deportation as well as the ruling on March 11, 1954 that he was not entitled to the relief under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 1971 et seq. It is urged that both rulings are arbitrary and capricious, in violation of the relator’s constitutional rights.

Relator was last admitted to the United States in 1944 as a member of the crew of the- SS…