Pera v. White

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, who are Persians, left Persia in July, 1918, and went to Mesopotamia, and left there for the United States prior to the date of the taking effect of the Immigration Act of May 19, 1921. Upon arrival at San Francisco in January, 1922, *700they were denied admission upon the ground that the quota of aliens of Persian nationality who could be legally admitted into the United States had already been exceeded.'

As it is conceded that at the time of their arrival in San Francisco appellants could have been admitted under the provisions of the general Immigration Act of…