Opinion ID: 1507360
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Heading: The Alien's Prior Crime

Text: Appellant in no way denies the acts of sexual perversion shown by this record and it is not contested that his conduct in New York in 1923 constituted a felony, and involved moral turpitude. Success in evading deserved punishment in no way mitigated that offense. That the crime was committed in the United States is of no consequence so long as it is prior to entry. The obvious purpose of section 155, supra, was to rid the United States of undesirable aliens. See United States ex rel. Volpe v. Smith, 1933, 289 U.S. 422, 425, 53 S.Ct. 665, 667, 77 L.Ed. 1298 where it was said: Aliens who have committed crimes while permitted to remain here may be decidedly more objectionable than persons who have transgressed the laws of another country. [9]