Ex parte Chiu Shee

LOWELL, District Judge.

Return on a writ of habeas corpus to obtain the release of a person held for deportation by the immigration authorities, who decided that the Immigration Act of May 26, 1924 (43 Stat. 153), prohibited her from landing. The case is properly before the court, as it involves the interpretation of a law on which the decision of the immigration officials is not final. Gegiow v. Uhl, 239 U. S. 3, 36 S. Ct. 2, 60 L. Ed. 114.

These proceedings paise the question whether a Chinese woman, born of foreign parents, who is the wife of an American citizen, is prevented by the recent…