United States Ex Rel. Eichenlaub v. Shaughnessy

These cases present the question of whether § 1 of the Act of May 10, 1920,1 authorizes the deportation of an alien under the following circumstances occurring since that Act took effect:

*523(1) The alien was naturalized; (2) while he was a naturalized citizen he was convicted of a conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917;2 (3) thereafter, in a denaturalization proceeding, his citizenship was revoked and his certificate of naturalization canceled on the ground that he had procured it by fraud; and (4) the proper authority, after the required hearings, found the alien to be an undesirable…