Ex parte Reator

• Date: 02 May 1925
• Court: U.S. District Court — Southern District of Texas
• Docket Number: Case No. 221

United States District Court of the Southern District of Texas.

Case No. 221

Ex parte Kazan.

Recognition of Governments — Effect of Non-Recognition upon Deportation of Subjects of State whose Government is not Recognised

Aliens — Deportation of Subjects of State whose Government is not Recognised — Non-Recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States.

The Facts.—Relator, a Russian subject, was ordered to be deported on the ground that he entered the United States illegally, in that he came immediately into the United States via Mexico, without having resided in Mexico for two years as required by statute of aliens entering through a foreign country, and was held in custody. The Soviet Government had not been recognised by the United States. He applied by writ of habeas corpus for his release.

Held:...