Court Opinion

ID: 6833920
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 20:00:05.239614+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:04:38.432918
License: Public Domain

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for Massachusetts dismissing a petition for writ of habeas corpus, discharging the writ, and remanding the petitioner to the custody of the commissioner of immigration at Boston for deportation.
Moy Mon Duck seeks admission to the country as the son of Moy Deng Toy, who is conceded to be a citizen of the United States.
The jurisdiction of the court to review the case was the only question heard and decided in the District Court; and the evidence submitted was that taken at the hearings before the immigration authorities, and upon which the applicant had been ordered deported. Judge Brewster, in a careful opinion, reached the conclusion that he had had a fair trial.
The question here presented is the same, whether the record of the proceedings before the immigration authorities discloses that the applicant was denied a fair hearing.
It appears that he was heard first before the board of special inquiry, which entered an order of exclusion; that on appeal to the Secretary of Labor the board of review confirmed the excluding decision; that thereafter the ease was reopened and a further hearing had before the board of special inquiry, at which the applicant, his alleged father, and one Moy Ho You testified. At the conclusion of this hearing the board of special inquiry reaffirmed its order of exclusion. The ease was again appealed to the Secretary of Labor, and again reviewed by the board of review, which reaffirmed the order of exclusion.
The testimony given by the applicant and his alleged father and uncle contains so many contradictions and inconsistencies, in relation to events said to have taken place in the family life of which they’ claim to be a part, we think the immigration authorities were warranted in reaching the conclusion that the applicant had not made out his case. At any rate, the record fails to show that he was not accorded a fair hearing.
The decree of the District Court is affirmed.