Ex parte Lam Pui
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
Petition for writ of habeas corpus by Lam Pui, an alien Chinese in the custody of W. R. Morton, and held for deportation, upon warrant of Hon. W. B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor.
1Opinion of the Court
CONNOR, District Judge.
[1] The record discloses that on December 27, 1913, upon the application of W. R. Morton, inspector of immigration for North Carolina. Hon. W. B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, issued his warrant directing said inspector to take petitioner into his custody, charging that he was “unlawfully within the United States, in that he entered in violation of a law thereof, to wit, the Chinese exclusion laws (section 21 of the act of February 20, 1907.)” The inspector was directed to grant petitioner a hearing, to enable him to show cause why he should not be deported in conformity…
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