Gegiow v. Uhl
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the Alien Immigration Act and the power of the Commissioner of Immigration to exclude aliens on the ground of likelihood of their becoming a public charge, are stated in the opinion. Alien immigrants are entitled to -due process of law under the Fifth Amendment, and under § 25 of the Immigration Law, and generally under our treaties with foreign countries.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the Alien Immigration Act and the power of the Commissioner of Immigration to exclude aliens on the ground of likelihood of their becoming a public charge, are stated in the opinion. Alien immigrants are entitled to -due process of law under the Fifth Amendment, and under § 25 of the Immigration Law, and generally under our treaties with foreign countries. It is a denial of due process of law to deny proper hearing or to order deportation on undisclosed assumption of controverted…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
The petitioners are Russians seeking to enter the United States. They have been detained for deportation by the Acting Commissioner of Immigration and have sued out a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was dismissed by the District Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals. 211 Fed. Rep. 236. 215 Fed. Rep. 573. 131 C. C. A. 641. By the return it appears.that they are part of a group of illiterate laborers, only one of whom, it seems, Gegiow, speaks even the ordinary Russian tongue, and in view of that fact it was suggested in a letter from the Acting Commissioner to the Commissioner General that…
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