United States v. Wong Chung
District Court, N.D. New York
This is an appeal from a judgment of a United States commissioner ordering the deportation of the defendant to the empire of China.
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This is an appeal from a judgment of a United States commissioner ordering the deportation of the defendant to the empire of China. On the 6th of December, 1898, the defendant was arrested and taken before the United States commissioner at Malone, N. Y., charged with being a Chinese person unlawfully in the United States, under section 12 of the act of May 6, 1882, as amended by the act of July 5, 1884. He offered in evidence as proof of his right to remain a certificate under section 6 of the act of July 5, 1884, permitting him to enter the United States as a student. This certificate…
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, District Judge
(after stating the facts). The court cannot resist the conclusion that the defendant has not, as yet, had a fair-hearing. Upon the faith of a passport, issued under the treaties and laws of the United States, signed by -the registrar general and viséd by the United States consul general at Hong Kong, the "defendant has-journeyed many thousand miles to secure advantages to which he is entitled if the statements of his certificate be true. He was turned back without even the pretense of a legal investigation. He was arrested, imprisoned and ordered back to China without a single fact to warrant…
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- In re MosesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1897
- In re MonacoU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1898
- In re KornmehlU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1898
- In re Gin FungU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon · 1898
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Wong Kam Chong v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940
- In re Can PonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1909
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