United States v. Wong You
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of § 36 of the . Alien Immigration Act of 1907 are stated in the opinion. The application. of the immigration laws to Chinese aliens is well settled. The immigration act- of March 3, 1893, 27 Stat. 569, 571, provided; “That this act shall not apply to Chinese persons.”
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of § 36 of the . Alien Immigration Act of 1907 are stated in the opinion. The application. of the immigration laws to Chinese aliens is well settled. The immigration act- of March 3, 1893, 27 Stat. 569, 571, provided; “That this act shall not apply to Chinese persons.” But in the immigration act of March 3, 1903, 32 Stat. 1213, 1221, §36, and in the act of February 20, 1907, 34 Stat. .898, 911, this clause was changed so as to read: “That this act shall not be construed- to repeal,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a writ of habeas corpus. It was dismissed by the District Court, 176 Fed. Rep. 933, but whs sustained, by the Circuit Court of Appeals, which ordered the parties concerned to be discharged from custody. 181 Fed. Rep. 313. 104 C. C. A. 535. The parties are Chinamen -who entered the United States'surreptitiously, in a manner prohibited by the immigration act of February 20, 1907, c. 1134, § 36, 34 Stat. 898, 908, and the rules made in pursuance of the same, if. applicable to Chinese. They were arrested in transitu and ordered by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor'to be deported. §§ 20,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wong You v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1910
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