United States ex rel. Lacas v. Curran

The Quota Act, supra, limited “the number of' aliens of any nationality who may be admitted under the Immigration Laws to the United States in any fiscal year.”

The petition for habeas corpus alleged that relators were “natives-of the Island of Cyprus, and British subjects,” and, they now assert the right to come in under the unexhausted British quota, and deny the ‘power, if not of the United States, at least of the officials of that country, to create any quota or allowance of immigrants for what is called “Other Asia.” ,

The power of Congress to exclude these or any other aliens is not to be…