United States ex rel. Willumeit v. Watkins

SWAN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by the relator from an order dismissing a writ of habeas corpus. He is in the custody of the respondent under two orders: one, an order of the Attorney General, dated May 23, 1946, ordering his removal from the United States as an alien enemy; the other a warrant of deportation, dated May 16, 1947 directing that he be deported to Germany.

From the amended petition for the writ, the return thereto and the record of the proceedings before officials of the Immigration Service, the following facts appear: The relator was born in 1905 in Lorraine, then a part…