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UNITED STATES v. SHAUGHNESSY

101 F.Supp. 66 (1951)

UNITED STATES ex rel. MEZEI v. SHAUGHNESSY, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

November 9, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Wasserman, Washington, D. C., for relator.

Myles J. Lane, U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, New York City (William J. Sexton, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for respondent.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

Mezei was excluded from the United States for undisclosed security reasons on February 9, 1950. He has been detained at Ellis Island for 21 months while the government has failed in efforts to deport him. No foreign government has shown a willingness to allow his entry. He now seeks a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he has been detained an unreasonable period of time.

The case presents the vexatious problem of what to...

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