United States ex rel. Murphy v. McCandless

DICKINSON, District Judge.

This case presents the difficulty often presented between the enforcement of immigration laws which voice a policy not only wise in itself but necessary to the well-being of our country, and the hardship which thereby presses upon the-individual subject to the provisions of the law.

The relator is a young woman of Irish birth, in no way objectionable from the standpoint of an immigrant, or a prospective citizen. There was, however, at least an irregularity in the mode and manner of her admission to the country. Had she made application in accordance with the…