Wong Kam Chong v. United States

Appellant, a Chinese person, was arrested, “found and adjudged to be one not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States” and ordered to be “removed from the United States to the country whence he came”, pursuant to 8 U.S.C.A. § 282 . He appeals from the judgment to that effect.

*708 On December 17, 1900 there was recorded in the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Territory of Hawaii a record of the birth on March 1, 1900 of “Kam Chong Wong” to “Wong Kai Sing”, father, and “Sen See”, mother, in Palama, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.

Wong Kam Chong, the appellant, in 1922, being then in Hawaii, applied for a Certificate of Hawaiian birth before departing for the mainland of the United States. On September 18, 1922, he testified in answer to the questions of an Immigration Inspector, that his name was “Wong Kam Chong”; that he was born in Palama, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, on December 17, 1900; that his father’s name was “Wong Kwai Sam”; that his mother’s name was “Sin She”; that his father died in 1908; that his mother died in 1903; and that his father’s friend, Chun Wah Bun “took care of” him after his father’s death. Appellant presented a certified copy of the…