Wong Sun v. United States

KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.

The four appellants, all of whom are of Chinese descent and none of whom claim United States citizenship, were arrested in August, 1915, as Chinese aliens unlawfully within the United States and, as claimed by the commissioner, thus subject to deportation under the Immigration Act of 1907 (34 Stat. 898). Under habeas corpus proceedings, they were discharged, conformably to the decision in United States v. Woo Jan, 245 U. S. 552, 38 Sup Ct. 207, 62 L. Ed. 466, because entitled to a judicial hearing, as distinguished from a summary or administrative' method. They were…