Ex parte Wong Foo’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““The inquiry of the Immigration Department should be directed, of course, in good faith to the ascertainment of that fact [that the applicant is the s'on of an American citizen]. The burden of proving such a relationship is entirely'upon the applicant, but that burden should not be increased by throwing extraneous matters into the scale against him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Quan Hing Sun v. White