Court Opinion

ID: 9639310
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:12:06.649321+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:15.570052
License: Public Domain

CHASE, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
Although the sentence imposed was to remain unexecuted as long as the relator made certain payments, he was none the less sentenced. People v. Kaiser, 95 Misc. Rep. 681, 159 N. Y. S. 322. All other requirements of 8 USCA § 155, under which he was ordered deported, were satisfied. Congress did not make deportation contingent upon actual confinement in prison after sentence. It provided for the deportation of aliens who were merely “* * * sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude, committed within five years after the entry of the alien to the United States, * * * ” and it might well, as it did, make that alone a ground of deportation. If the enforcement of this plain provision of the statute works too great hardship in some instances, the sole power to remedy that lies in the legislative body responsible for its enactment.
I would affirm the order of deportation.