Barber, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Gonzales (347 U.S. 637)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 7, 1954 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 347 U.S. 637 · 74 S. Ct. 822
- Docket
- No. 431
- Argued
- March 10, 1954
- Decided
- June 7, 1954
- Term
- October Term 1953
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Warren
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Warren (wrote), Justice Black, Justice Douglas, Justice Clark, Justice Frankfurter, Justice R. H. Jackson
- Dissenting
- Justice Burton, Justice Reed, Justice Minton (wrote)
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent was born in the Philippine Islands in 1913 and came therefrom to the continental United States in 1930. He has lived here ever since. In 1941, he was convicted in the State of California of assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to imprisonment for one year in the Alameda County jail. In 1950, he was convicted in the State of Washington of second degree burglary and was sentenced under the indeterminate sentence law of that State to a minimum term of two years in the state penitentiary. In 1951, after an administrative hearing, he was ordered deported to the Philippine Islands under § 19 (a) of the Immigration Act of 1917 as an alien who “after entry” had been sentenced more than once to imprisonment for terms of one year or more for crimes involving moral turpitude. 39 Stat. 889, as amended, formerly 8 U. S. C. § 155 (a). After respondent was taken into custody, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The petition attacked the validity of the deportation order on the ground, among others, that he was not subject to deportation under § 19 (a) since he had not made an “entry” within the meaning of that section. The District Court dismissed the petition. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with…
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