Keller v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. Section 3 of the act of Congress of February 20, 1907, c.1134, 34 Stat. 898, 899, entitled “An act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States” reads as follows: “ Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States of any alien woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, is hereby forbidden.; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly,…
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. Section 3 of the act of Congress of February 20, 1907, c.1134, 34 Stat. 898, 899, entitled “An act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States” reads as follows: “ Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States of any alien woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, is hereby forbidden.; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or -attempt to import, into the United States, any alien woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution, or for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The single question is one of constitutionality. Has Congress power to punish the offense charged, or is jurisdiction thereover solely with the State? Undoubtedly, as held, “Congress has the power to exclude aliens from the United States; to prescribe the terms and conditions on which they may come .in; to establish regulations for.sending out of the country such aliens as have entered in violation of law, "and to commit the enforcement -of such conditions and regulations to executivé *144officers.” Turner v. Williams, 194 U. S. 279, 289. See also Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U. S. 698,…
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