Ex parte Kazan

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

Respondent in his answer to the writ justifies the detention of relators on the ground that they axe aliens held in deportation proceedings, and asserts that not the relators, but the writ, should be discharged because issued prematurely; there being not only no order for deportation entered, but no hearing as yet had.

Relators reply, making the contention very seriously that the immigration authorities are without jurisdiction to detain them for that they are citizens, being children of a naturalized citizen and having entered the United States while yet minors, and…