United States ex rel. Claussen v. Curran

MACK, Circuit Judge.

The question before us is the meaning of the word “entry” in section 19 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, which provides that “any alien who is hereafter sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involv*16ing moral turpitude, committed within five years after the entry of the alien to the Unit,ed States, * * * shall,1 upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported.” Comp. St. § 4289%jj.

If relator’s entry was, as asserted by the government, in 1918, he was deportable; if…