UNITED STATES v. WATKINS


71 F.Supp. 429 (1947)

UNITED STATES ex rel. VON KLECZKOWSKI et al. v. WATKINS, District Director of Immigration and Naturalization.

District Court, S. D. New York.

April 22, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Waldman and Gunther Jacobson, both of New York City, for relators.

John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., and David McKibbin and Harold J. Raby, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of New York City, for respondent.


RIFKIND, District Judge.

In 1785 James Madison could adduce, in opposition to a bill pending in the General Assembly of Virginia, the argument that

"It will have a * * * tendency to banish our Citizens. The allurements presented by other situations are every day thinning their number. To superadd a fresh motive to emigration, by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms...

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