Yong Yung See v. United States

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for Honolulu discharging a writ of habeas corpus brought by a Chinese alleging himself to be a natural-born citizen of the United States, illegally detained by the Honolulu immigration authorities. His petition shows that in 1933 he left the Islands for China, and on his return in 1936 the Board of Inquiry denied him permission to enter, and ordered him returned to China.

The. record shows that in 1922 petitioner was admitted at Honolulu as a native-born citizen, who left for China in 1909 at the age of 5 years. In…