Inouye v. Carr

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a Japanese alien, was taken into custody by appellee, as District Director of Immigration and Naturalization at Los Angeles, California, upon a warrant issued by the Secretary of Labor, directing appellee to deport appellant to Japan. Appellant thereupon petitioned the District Court for a writ of habeas corpus. From an order dismissing his petition and remanding him to appellee’s custody, this appeal is prosecuted.

Appellant was admitted to the United States on November 25, 1933. Being of the Japanese Race and, therefore, ineligible to citizenship,1 and being…