Finucane. On April 5. 1944. the Board labored and brought forth the following masterpiece of confusion and evasion. The Chairman of the Board. in his opinion. said: On its first consideration of this case October 29. 1940. this Board directed the respondents deportation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the ground that she was in the United States in violation of the Immigration Act of 1924 because not in possession of an immigration visa at the time of entering this country. At the same time an application for suspension of deportation under section 19 (c) (2) of the Immigration Act of 1917 was denied. The order of the Board was affirmed by the Attorney General. A motion based -on the record as it then existed seeking suspension of deportation was denied without prejudice December 2. 1943. A second motion dated January 17. 1944. requesting reconsideration and reopening of the case and for the privilege of voluntary departure under section 19 (c) (1) of the Immigration Act of 1917. as amended. and preexamination was filed with this Board. The application for suspension of deportation was abandoned. We granted this motion to the extent of directing further hearing. The hearing has been accorded and the case is now before us on the issue of whether this discretionary relief prayed for should be granted. That the respondent is deportable on the ground that she lacked an immigration visa required by the Immigration Act of 1924 when she entered the United States from Canada in November 1933 without undergoing immigration inspection is not questioned. The only issue Is whether she should be accorded relief permitted by section 19 (c) of the act of 1917. as amended. The respondent was married to Earl Russell Browder. a citizen of the United States. in Moscow in September 1926.
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