United States Ex Rel. Tom We Shung v. Murff
District Court, S.D. New York
1Opinion of the Court
WEINFELD, District Judge.
Tom We Shung, the relator, by this habeas corpus proceeding, challenges the validity of an exclusion order which directs his deportation to the mainland of China via Hong Kong. This attempt to execute the exclusion order is the culmination of more than eleven years of litigation before the immigration authorities and the Courts, in which Shung unsuccessfully contended that he was entitled to admission to the United States as the minor son of Tom Wing, an American citizen and an honorably discharged veteran of World War II. 1
Shung, a native of China, arrived at San…
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