Legal Opinion
G-Q
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1961No. 1158Published
1Opinion of the Court
MATTER OP G—Q--- In DEPORTATION Proceedings A-5176004 Deckled by Board August 1, 1961 Deportability—Communist Party membership—Materiality of personal advo- cacy or awareness of Party doctrines. (1) Ruling in Galvan v. Press,
347 U.S. 522
(1954), that support or knowl- edge or communist rarty's advocacy of force ana violence was not in- tended to be prerequisite to deportation remains unimpaired by subsequent judicial decisions. However, inquiry into whether an alien personally advo- cated violence may be material if it is part of an effort by the alien to show that his membership was…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Galvan v. PressSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Rowoldt v. PerfettoSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Martin Jimenez v. Bruce Barber, District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the Thirteenth Immigration DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1958
- Junius Irving Scales v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1958
- Jose Maria Gastelum-Quinones v. William P. Rogers, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1961