Let us see whether or not under that definition the bill before us constitutes a bill of attainder or an ex post facto law. I quote from the case of Wong Wing v. United States (163 U. S. 229. at p. 236). the opinion of Mr. Justice Shiras. The order of deportation is not a punishment for crime. It is not a punishment. that is where the gentleman from California fell into error. It is not a banishment in the sense in which that word is often applied to the expulsion of a citizen from his country by way of punishment.
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