In 1987 he left this country. abandoning all rights of residence here. to fight with the Spanish Republican Army. He returned In 1998. Subsequently. deportation proceedings were started on the ground that he had violated a 1950 statute by becoming a Communist after "entering" the United States. The essential question as seen by the court majority was which "entry" was controllingthe entry In 1923 or the entry in 1938. If the former. he was deportable. If the latter. he was not. Six of the judges. interpreting what they called the "cloudy" provisions of the law. said that on the facts of this case the 1938 entry was c6ntrolling and that Bonetti could not be depoted.
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