Cahill

This is an appeal from an order in a habeas corpus proceeding remanding the appellant Wong Doon to custody for deportation. The appellant Wong Tuck, who claims to be the father of Wong Doon, petitioned the lower court for the writ of habeas corpus, and joins in the appeal from the order.

Appellant Wong Doon, a Chinese, arrived at the port of San Francisco from China on January 17, 1934, and sought admission into the United States as a citizen thereof, claiming to be the foreign-born son of Wong Tuck, a citizen of the United States. Upon his application for entry Wong Doon was given a hearing before a Board of Special Inquiry; thereafter his petition to. enter and remain in the United States was denied by the Commissioner of Immigration at San Francisco upon the recommendation of the Board of Special Inquiry; upon appeal to the Department of Labor Wong Doon was declared to be a citizen of the United States, and the port officials at San Francisco were directed to release him from detention and permit him to land. When a guard went to the detention quarters on Angel Island to execute this order he found three letters in the possession of applicant which he immediately turned over…