United States ex rel. Amato v. Commissioner of Immigration

CAFFEY, District Judge.

The relator is an alien. He was twice convicted in the New York State courts of crimes committed in this country after his last entry in 1921. The first conviction was in 1930 of second-degree burglary; the second in 1934 of petit larceny.

Throughout the deportation proceeding the alien was represented by counsel and *481his hearing was fair. The only questions under the applicable statute (8 U.S.C.A. § 155), therefore, are: (1) Did each crime mentioned above involve moral turpitude? (2) Was each sentence for one year or more? If both answers be in the affirmative, the…