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8 I&N Dec. 371 (B.I.A. 1959)
In the Matter of C____ Y____ L

8 Cited authorities

  1. Holy Trinity Church v. United States

    143 U.S. 457 (1892)   Cited 923 times
    Holding that although the Alien Contract Labor Act made it a crime to contract with or encourage any alien to migrate to the United States "to perform labor or service of any kind," a cleric who emigrated from England to serve as a pastor of a New York church and thus technically fell within the letter of the Act, was exempt from the Act's reach because of the absurd results that would follow from giving such broad meaning to words of the statute

  2. Tulsidas v. Insular Collector

    262 U.S. 258 (1923)   Cited 26 times
    In Tulsidas et al. v. Insular Collector of Customs, 262 U.S. 258, 265, 43 S. Ct. 586, 588, 67 L. Ed. 969, the court said: "We think, rather, it will leave the administration of the law, where the law intends it should be left, to the attention of officers made alert to attempts at evasion of it, and instructed by experience of the fabrications which will be made to accomplish evasion."

  3. Scharrenberg v. Dollar S.S. Co.

    245 U.S. 122 (1917)   Cited 22 times

    CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. No. 192. Argued October 12, 1917. Decided November 5, 1917. Inducing and assisting aliens to come from abroad, working as seamen on the way, for bona fide service as seamen on an American ship during her voyage from American ports to foreign countries and while she lies in such ports preparatory to or in the course of such voyage, is not an assisting or encouraging of the importation or migration of alien "contract laborers" "into

  4. United States v. Laws

    163 U.S. 258 (1896)   Cited 27 times

    CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. No. 248. Submitted April 28, 1896. Decided May 18, 1896. A contract made with an alien in a foreign country to come to this country as a chemist on a sugar plantation in Louisiana, in pursuance of which contract such alien does come to this country and is employed on a sugar plantation in Louisiana, and his expenses paid by the defendant, is not such a contract to perform labor or service as is prohibited in the act of Congress

  5. Kaichiro Sugimoto v. Nagle

    38 F.2d 207 (9th Cir. 1930)   Cited 7 times

    No. 5921. February 17, 1930. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Northern District of California; Frank H. Kerrigan, Judge. Petition by Kaichiro Sugimoto for a writ of habeas corpus to John D. Nagle, as Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of San Francisco. From an order denying the petition [ 33 F.2d 926], petitioner appeals. Affirmed. Bianchi Hyman, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant. George J. Hatfield, U.S. Atty., and Herman A. Van der Zee

  6. Ex Parte Kaichiro Sugimoto

    33 F.2d 926 (N.D. Cal. 1929)   Cited 3 times

    No. 20006. July 5, 1929. Bianchi Hyman, of San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner. George J. Hatfield, U.S. Atty., and H.A. Van der Zee, Asst. U.S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., for respondent. Habeas Corpus. Petition for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Kaichiro Sugimoto. Petition dismissed. KERRIGAN, District Judge. This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Kaichiro Sugimoto, a Japanese. The petition shows that he was admitted to Hawaii July 29, 1907, and that shortly thereafter

  7. Section 1251 - Transferred

    8 U.S.C. § 1251   Cited 2,159 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Delineating crimes that make alien deportable

  8. Section 101.1 - Presumption of lawful admission

    8 C.F.R. § 101.1   Cited 4 times

    A member of the following classes shall be presumed to have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence even though a record of his admission cannot be found, except as otherwise provided in this section, unless he abandoned his lawful permanent resident status or subsequently lost that status by operation of law: (a)Prior to June 30, 1906. An alien who establishes that he entered the United States prior to June 30, 1906. (b)United States land borders. An alien who establishes that, while a citizen