Chin Bak Kan v. United States

Citations

• 186 U.S. 193
• 22 S. Ct. 891
• 46 L. Ed. 1121
• 1902 U.S. LEXIS 886

Syllabus

<p>The ruling in United States v. Lee Yen-Tal, 185 U. S. 213, affirmed.</p> <p>The legislation considered, the act of May 5, 1892, is satisfied by proceedings before a United States commissioner.</p> <p>It was competent for Congress to empower a United States commissioner to determine the various facts on which citizenship depends under the decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649.</p> <p>The same reasoning with respect to the authority to exclude applies to the authority to expel, and the policy of the legislation in respect to exclusion and expulsion is opposed to numerous appeals.</p>