Summary

Portrait of Earl Warren Earl Warren Barber v. Gonzales — Opinion of the Court

The extent shows that in order that there be an entry within the meaning of the act there must be an arrival from some foreign port or place. There is no such entry where one goes to sea on board an American vessel from a port of the United States and returns to the same or another port of this country without having been in any foreign port or place.' (Italics added.)
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Portrait of Earl Warren Earl Warren Barber v. Gonzales — Opinion of the Court

For such purposes the Philippine Islands shall be considered as a separate country and shall have for each fiscal year a quota of fifty.' The Government urges that the reference in § 8 (a) (1) to 'citizens of the Philippine Islands' includes Filipinos then residing in the United States; that by virtue of this provision the respondent was assimilated to the status of an alien for purposes of 'immigration, exclusion, or expulsion'; and that, having been twice convicted thereafter of crimes involving moral turpitude, he is deportable under § 19 (a) of the Immigration Act of 1917.
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