Kaplan v. Tod, 241
| Court | United States Supreme Court |
| Writing for the Court | HOLMES |
| Citation | 69 L.Ed. 585,267 U.S. 228,45 S.Ct. 257 |
| Parties | KAPLAN v. TOD, Commissioner of Immigration |
| Docket Number | No. 241,241 |
| Decision Date | 02 March 1925 |
v.
TOD, Commissioner of Immigration.
Messrs. James Marshall and Elijah N. Zoline, both of New York City, for appellant.
Mr. Asst. Atty. Gen. Donovan, for appellee.
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Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition of the appellant for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition alleges that the petitioner is a citizen of the United States, and that she is unlawfully detained by the respondent under a warrant of deportation issued by the Assistant Secretary of Labor, without jurisdiction and without due process of law contrary to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. An appeal was taken directly to this Court on the alleged infringement of the appellant's constitutional rights. Chin Yow v. United States, 208 U. S. 8, 13, 28 S. Ct. 201, 52 L. Ed. 369; Ng Fung Ho v. White, 259 U. S. 276, 284, 42 S. Ct. 492, 66 L. Ed. 938.
The appellant was born in Russia. On July 20, 1914, being then about thirteen years old, she was brought to this country, where her father already was, by her mother. Upon examination she was certified to be feeble minded, and was ordered to be excluded, but before the order could be carried into effect the European war had begun. Deportation necessarily was suspended, and she was kept at Ellis Island until June, 1915. In the latter half of that month she was handed over to the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society upon its undertaking to accept custody of the child until she could be deported safely, to return her when required, and meanwhile to prevent her becoming a public charge. The Society allowed her to live with her father, which she has done ever since. On December 14, 1920, her father was naturalized, she being then about nineteen. The warrant of deportation was issued on January 19, 1923; the writ of habeas corpus was allowed on April 24, and was dismissed on the following October 9.
It is not questioned that the appellant rightly was denied admission in July, 1914, or that she is feeble minded
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still. Act of March 26, 1910, c. 128; 36 Stat. 263. But it is said that she became a citizen by the naturalization of her father while she was a minor and in this country, Rev. St. § 2172 (Comp. St. § 4367) and that she cannot be deported upon a warrant issued more than five years after her entry into the United...
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