Proctor

The appellant applied for admission into the United States at the Port of Seattle upon his arrival from China, where he was born. He was denied admission and held for deportation. Pie applied for writ of habeas corpus, which was denied, and appeals from the order remanding him to custody.

Appellant’s alleged íáther, Chin Oak Leong, is a native born citizen of the United States, and through him appellant claims citizenship therein.

The question presented by the record is whether or not the appellant was denied due process of law by,the immigration authorities in the consideration of his application for admission. This claim is based upon the contention that the rejection of appellánt’s testimony was arbitrary. Respondent claims that the rejection of such testimony was justified by reason of its unreliability as shown by the numerous discrepancies therein. We thus have the usual question of discrepancies presented to us in these proceedings.

Chin Oak Leong testified before the Board that the appellant was his son, born in China. The immigration records show that the alleged father returned from China in 1912. Six years later, in 1918, the alleged father, when registering for…