Singh v. District Director of Immigration

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California denying appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant is held on a warrant directing his deportation to India under the Immigration Act of 1924 approved May 26, 1924 and effective July 1, 1924 (chapter 190, § 14, 43 Stat. 162, 8 U.S.C.A. § 214). We use the term appellant and “the alien” interchangeably herein.. The immigration authorities claim that appellant illegally entered the United States from the Republic of Mexico since July 1st, 1924,…