Chang Chow v. United States

This is an appeal from an order directing the deportation of appellant, Chang Chow, alias Chang Sau Mung, who claims to have been born in Hawaii, where he is now domiciled. The proceeding was instituted February 6, 1930-, in the District Court, by an immigration inspector, who in a verified complaint charged that appellant “is a person of Chinese descent and a Chinese laborer within the United States and within the jurisdiction of the United States District Court of the Territory of Hawaii, without the Certificate of Residence required by the Act of Congress * * * and * * * is not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States.”,

Appellant was admitted to the territory of Hawaii late in the year 1923, after a full hearing before a board of special inquiry which unanimously determined that he was entitled to admission by reason of Hawaiian birth. Subsequently, on February 1, 1923, and based on this determination, he was regularly issued a certificate of identity. February 5, 1930, he was taken in custody by an immigration inspector, and by him subjected to an examination concerning his right to he in the United_ States. The following day this immigration inspector appeared…