Ngai Chi Lam v. P. A. Esperdy, District Director for the New York District, Immigration and Naturalization Service

Ngai Chi Lam, an alien crewman who concededly is deportable and subject to a warrant of deportation to Hong Kong, claims that the Attorney General, in directing inquiry to the United Kingdom rather than to the Ian Smith regime of Rhodesia, has deprived appellant of his right to be deported to Rhodesia, the country of his choice, pursuant to .Section 243(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a) (1964). The District Court for the Southern District of New York, Harold R. Tyler, Jr., District Judge, on May 5, 1969, relying upon the opinion of Judge Ryan in an almost identical…