UNITED STATES v. McCANDLESS

No. M-242.

40 F.2d 643 (1930)

UNITED STATES ex rel. MURPHY v. McCANDLESS, Immigration Com'r.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

May 19, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adrian Bonnelly, of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Calvin S. Boyer, Acting U. S. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


DICKINSON, District Judge.

This case presents the difficulty often presented between the enforcement of immigration laws which voice a policy not only wise in itself but necessary to the well-being of our country, and the hardship which thereby presses upon the individual subject to the provisions of the law.

The relator is a young woman of Irish birth, in no way objectionable from the standpoint of an immigrant or a prospective citizen. There was, however...

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