S.. 546) Justice Harlan. for the court. said: The remedy of the appellant was by appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury from the decision of his subordinate. and not to the courts. If the act of 1894 had done nothing more than appropriate money to enforce the Chineseexclusion act. the courts would have been authorized to protect any right the appellant had to enter the country if he was of the class entitled to admission under existing laws or treaties. and was improperly excluded. But when Congress went further. and declared that in every case of an alien excluded by the decision of the appropriate immigration or customs officers "from admission. Into the United States under any law or treaty." such decision should be final. unless reversed by the Secretary of the Treasury. the authority of the courts to review the decision of the executive officers. was taken away. (United States v. Rogers. 65 Fed.
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