Ex parte Psimoules

This petitioner, who is a citizen of Greece, has been ordered deported by the Department of Rabor, after due hearing by the immigration officers of said department, because “he has been found an inmate of, and connected with the management of, a house of prostitution, subsequent to his entry in the Unitea States.”

[ 1 ] The claim is made that the evidence which was taken prior to, and which was used as the basis of the issuance of, the warrant of arrest cannot be considered in determining the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant deportation; that, excluding that evidence, there is nothing in the record to establish any material fact necessary to support the order of deportation; and, specifically, that there is nothing to show that the petitioner, at or prior to his arrest, *119 was either an inmate of, or connected with the management of, a house of prostitution.

This court, in the Case of Hidekuni Iwata (No. 80, Criminal Southern Division) 219 Fed. 610 , has had occasion to go> into the scope and character of the proceedings which must be had to justify an order of deportation. Its conclusions were stated therein with definiteness, and need not be here…