Ali

Ali v. Haff

Good Law
114 F.2d 369·1940 U.S. App. LEXIS 3128
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitSeptember 11, 1940No. 9439California2,723 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Garrecht, J.

On this appeal from an order of the court below denying a petition for writ of habeas corpus, prayed for by the appellant upon the ground that he was illegally deprived of his liberty by the appellee who *370 threatens to deport him under authority of a warrant of the Secretary of Labor, the question is whether there is any substantial evidence to support the action of the administrative officers of the Department of Labor. The appellant confines the question to “whether there is any substantial evidence to sustain the conclusion of the Immigration Officials that the photograph of the Mexican Hindu, Harma Singh or Hazura Singh, is that of the appellant.”

Rahmat Ali, a native of Krepor, Jallun-dur, India, was first arrested in 1932 and charged with being an alien ineligible to citizenship, and in the United States in violation of the Immigration Act of 1924, 8 U.S.C.A. § 213 (a) and (c), and not exempted by paragraph (c), Section 13, thereof. At this time, the alien said he was born in 1889 and came to the United States in 1911; that he did not remember the name of the boat; that he could not read or write in his own language (he did not understand any English) ; that he was…

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