Dai Ming Shih v. Kennedy
Citation | 297 F.2d 791,111 US App. DC 380 |
Decision Date | 30 November 1961 |
Docket Number | No. 16426.,16426. |
Parties | DAI MING SHIH et al., Appellants, v. Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellee. |
Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (District of Columbia) |
Mr. David Carliner, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Jack Wasserman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.
Mr. Abbott A. Leban, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., Charles T. Duncan, Principal Asst. U. S. Atty., Gil Zimmerman, Special Asst. U. S. Atty., and Edmond F. McKeown, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.
Before FAHY, WASHINGTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.
This is a deportation case, The aliens admittedly are in this country illegally. They were served with warrants of deportation which did not name the country to which they were to be deported, but simply stated that they were to be deported "pursuant to law." They were later notified that they were to be deported to Formosa. In their suit in the District Court they alleged that they were each "subjects, nationals, or citizens of China," and sought injunctive and declaratory relief against their deportation to Formosa. The District Court dismissed the complaint and granted the defendant-appellee's motion for summary judgment.
The governing statutory provisions are those of Section 243(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 66 Stat. 212 (1952), 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a) (1958), reading in pertinent part:
Appellants argue that Formosa is not the country of which they are "subjects, nationals, or citizens," within the meaning of the emphasized portion of the quoted provisions;1 that Formosa is not the "territory" of the Republic of China within the meaning of those provisions; and that the phrase "its territory" means sovereign rather than de facto territory. We think that the complaint must be construed to mean — and appellants' counsel does not urge the contrary — that appellants are "subjects, nationals, or citizens" of the Republic of China. We have...
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