United States ex rel. Picicci v. District Director of Immigration & Naturalization

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

The statute, 8 U.S.C.A. § 136(1) provides that stowaways shall be excluded but that, “if otherwise admissible,” they “may be ■admitted in the discretion of the Attorney General.” The parties to these appeals appear to agree that the orders of the Board of Special Inquiry, in directing the rela-*306tors’ exclusion, held, in. effect, that relators were not “otherwise admissible.”

8 U.S.C.A. § 136(q)-provides'that' the Commissioner, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall issue regulations “to control and regulate the admission and return of otherwise inadmissible aliens…