Ex parte Turner

Frank F. Turner and Mabel Turner, his wife, and their three minor children, Warren Turner, Iona Turner, and Verna Turner, are held for deportation, warrant of the Secretary of Labor therefor having been issued. The ground upon which the order of deportation was made is that the petitioners are aliens, and that, at the time of their entry into the United States, they were persons likely to become a pubhc charge.

Frank Turner, the husband and father, entered the United States from Canada on November 22, 1923. His destination was given as Seattle, Wash., and the record of the Immigration Department shows that he was admitted to remain only for a period of two months. The petitioner named admits that the condition of temporary residence was attached to his admission into this country, but states that no written permit limiting the period to two months was issued. to him. From Seattle he was brought to Los Angeles by a Mrs. Fleming, for whom he worked, according to his testimony given before the examining board, for several months. He contends that Mrs. Fleming did not pay him the money that was due him for his labor, which he states was at the rate of $6 per day, and that he has…