Wong Hop v. United States

The evidence in this ease tends to show that appellant is a Chinese; that as a seaman he arrived at the port of San Francisco, on the steamer State Arrow from Shanghai, in 1921; that with other members of the crew he was then and there discharged, and was furnished with a seaman’s identification card and put ashore; that he never reshipped foreign, but thereafter remained in this country, and that for some years he worked as a laborer, hut for the last three years he has been worldng in a shrimp cannery, for a shrimp company in which he has a $500 interest, and from which he receives no wages.

Finding that he was without a certificate of residence, or even the seaman’s identification card, which he claims to have lost, an immigration inspector on February 5, 1929, made complaint before a United States commissioner for the purpose of procuring an order for his deportation. Apparently upon the same day appellant was taken into custody and brought before the commissioner, whereupon the latter made an order committing him to the custody of the marshal to await hearing in default of bail, which was fixed at $2,500, which order is indorsed as filed February 5, 1929. We are referring…