Justice Brewer. and they take the ground that there is a distinction between the power to exclude. or shut out. an alien and the power to expel. or deport. or send back. Judge Field found himself in an embarrassing position. because he had delivered the opinion of the courta long and full opinion-(in 130 U. S.) in the Chinese exclusion case. in which he held that the Government of the United States had the undoubted power to exclude every alien from its shores. When the second case came before him he had to draw a distinction. He said that this was different. that. although the United States had clearly the power to exclude. it could not expel or deport.
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