Low Wah Suey v. Backus
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the construction of the Alien Immigration Act of February 20,1007, and the right thereunder of the Government to deport the alien Chinese wife of a Chinese citizen found within three years after entering this country in a house of prostitution, are stated in the opinion. This court has jurisdiction.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the construction of the Alien Immigration Act of February 20,1007, and the right thereunder of the Government to deport the alien Chinese wife of a Chinese citizen found within three years after entering this country in a house of prostitution, are stated in the opinion. This court has jurisdiction. In Yeung How v. North, 223 U. S. 705, dismissed 'per curiam this term, there had been a trial on the main issues, and petitioner was a widow. The cases are dissimilar. The statute…
1Opinion of the Court
Mh. Justice Day
delivered the opinion of the court.
Li A. Sim, a Chinese woman, wife of Low Wah Suey, was ordered to. be deported by the Department of Commerce and Labor, a hearing having been had before an immigration inspector at San Francisco and appeal taken to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor under the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 20, 1907 (34 Stat. 898, c. 1134), the warrant for deportation reciting that she had landed at the port of San' Francisco,' California, on the fifteenth of April, 1910, and had been found in the United States in violation of the act of…
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