MAGDADENE DIEUVIL and GUILFORT DIEUVIL v. FALCON TRACE HOMEOWNERS ASSOC. INC.

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• holding that the political branches could deport residents based solely on their race and deem all people of “the Chinese race” incompetent to sign the affidavit needed for Chinese immigrants to remain lawfully
• recognizing that an “order of deportation is not a punishment for crime”
• stating that Eighth Amendment is inapplicable to deportation because deportation is not punishment for a crime
• holding the Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments inapplicable to the deportation of aliens on the ground that “deportation is not a punishment for crime”
• explaining that “the provisions of the Constitution[] . . . prohibiting . . . cruel and unusual punishments[] have no application” to an order of deportation obtained “by appropriate and lawful means”
• grounding federal control over ingress and egress of aliens in part in federal government’s “entire control of international relations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).