Ex parte Hoffman

Citations

• 179 F. 839
• 103 C.C.A. 327
• 1910 U.S. App. LEXIS 4717

Syllabus

<p>Aliens (§ 1*) — Deportation—Residents in United States — Temporary Absence Abroad — Prostitutes—1 • Alien’ ’ — ‘ ‘Immi&rant. ’ ’</p> <p>Act Cong. Feb. 20, 1907, c. 1134, § 20, 34 Stat. 904 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1909, p. 459), provides that any “alien” who shall enter the United States, in violation of the law, and such as become public charges from causes existing prior to landing, shall, on the warrant of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, be deported at any time within three years after the date of entry, iHeld, that the word “alien,” as so used, was not synonymous with “immigrant,” but was intended as a broader term, and included a Bussian unmarried woman, who entered the United States in 1897 or 1898, and remained therein continuously until March, 1908, when she returned to Bussia, after haying engaged in prostitution for a considerable time, and who attempted to re-enter the United States in June, 1908; she being within three years thereafter an alien of the excluded classes and subject to deportation.</p> <p>[Ed. Note — For other cases, see Aliens, Cent. Dig. § 1; Dec. Dig, § 1.*</p> <p>For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, vol. 1, pp. 302-306; vol. 8, p. 7571.]</p>