United States ex rel. Ghersin v. Commissioner of Immigration

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a writ of habeas corpus sued out by the relator. The relator is a subject of the kingdom of Roumania, who embarked at Rotterdam, Holland, for the United States and arrived at the port of New York on September 12, 1922. Upon her arrival here she was subjected to the illiteracy test by a board of special inquiry held at Ellis Island, New York harbor, on September 12, 1922. At the conclusion of the hearing she was excluded as being illiterate, being unable *757to read, and she was ordered deported. An appeal from that order was taken…