Keitaro Karamoto v. Burnett

SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a member of the Japanese race, a native and subject of Japan, and a laborer by occupation, was lawfully admitted to the territory of Hawaii, at Honolulu, in February, 1906, by virtue of a passport issued to Mm by the Japanese government, limited to Hawaii. Thereafter, in the same year, or in the following year, he came to the continental United States, disembarking at San Francisco, Cal., and, according to bis testimony, landed without questioning or investigation by the immigration officials as to his right to come here. Since that time he has resided in…