UNITED STATES v. HUGHES

No. 7470.

116 F.2d 171 (1940)

UNITED STATES ex rel. VOUNAS v. HUGHES, District Director of Immigration, etc.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

December 2, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph W. Wescott, of Camden, N. J., and Michael C. McManus, of Philadelphia, Pa., for relator.

William F. Smith, Acting U. S. Atty., and W. Orvyl Schalick, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Trenton, N. J., for respondent.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge.

There are no "harder cases" than those resulting from the operation of the Immigration laws.1 Particularly is this so when the application is to expulsion rather than exclusion. To be shown the promised land is bad; to have loved and lost it is worse.2 Fortunately, the appeal of the case at bar is not to the judicial heart, but to the judicial mind.

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