Lee Sai Ying v. United States

This is an appeal from an order of deportation. The facts disclosed by the record are briefly these. The appellant belongs to the Chinese race. October 9, 1897, Lee Long, wife and child, departed from Honolulu for China on the steamship City of Peking. On November 27, 1922, the appellant applied for admission to the United States in Honolulu, claiming that he was the person who departed on the steamship City of Peking in 1897 as the child of Lee Long, and on December 6, 1922, he was admitted to the United States as Hawaiian bom, and was given a certificate of identity to that effect. On the hearing in the court below there was offered the complete immigration record, which included the examination of the appellant at the time of his admission, the supporting affidavits, the examination of the appellant by the immigration officers on May 17, 1927, relative to his right to remain in the-United States, and other testimony. The testimony thus offered and received discloses important and unexplained contradictions and discrepancies. Thus, at the time of his admission in 1922, the appellant testified that the name of his mother was Wong Shee, and that she had natural feet. His…