Renato Riva v. John N. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 1121 · 1972
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1426 (§ 315 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Cruz v. Hauck · Parham v. Cortese · Barr v. United States · Jolley v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Paris v. Shaughnessy
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“(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the following classes of aliens shall be ineligible to receive visas and shall be excluded from admission into the United States: (22) Aliens who are ineligible to citizenship, except aliens seeking to enter as nonimmigrants; or persons who have departed from or who have remained outside the United States to avoid or evade training or service in the armed forces in time of war or a period declared by the President to be a national emergency, except aliens who were at the time of such departure nonimmigrant aliens and who seek to reenter the United States as nonimmigrants ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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