Ex parte Yee Mon Wah

Applicant, claiming to he American bom, sought admission to the United State at Seattle on September 20,1926, and was excluded. He claims to be the same Yee Mon Wah who appeared before United States Commissioner Benjamin L. Wells at Malone, N. Y., on December 31, 1901, in deportation proceedings, and who was discharged.

Applicant arrived at San Francisco on May 15,1929, and again made application to enter the country as an American-born citizen. The immigration authorities have again denied admission on the ground that applicant has failed to establish the fact of Ms birth within the United States. They also find that he is not the same Yee Mon Wah who was before United States Commissioner Wells at Malone, N. Y., in 1901.

On examining the voluminous record, I find several photographs, and, after comparison, I think there are photographs of at least four different men purporting to be Yee Mon Wah. Tbe photograph of tbe person admitted to tbe United States by Commissioner Wells in 1902- as Yee Mon Wah shows a young man in Chinese costume. The photograph taken in 1917 shows a young man in American costume, who, sixteen years later, looks younger than the man in the 1901 photograph.…