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The Petitlon of TTI{OTIIO
TINDF.ADE
to be adnitted a CitLzen of the
United States of Arnerlca.
Appear"ances: Arthur
J. I(arnuth, Distrlct Director of
Innigratlon
John
and.
Naturall-zatlon, by
L. Iv,lurff, Actlng ltraturali-zatlon
Examlner
Distrlct Jud.ge: Tlmoteo Andrade, now a
cltizen of lrexico, iras petl'bioned for admj.ssj-on to citlze4shi,r: in ttre linited states. The D-i-stri-ct Director of rr,urlgration ancl i',laturrrlizat"ion tlroves i9 rlismiss thepetltlon on
the sole ground l;irat petitloner ls lne1lglb1e by race to
citl-zenshlp. An affida.vlt of petltloner. 1s presented
setting forth that he j.s of fndlan and Spanlsh. bloocl in
ICI'IIGHT,
equal pr.oportior.S
r
sectlon 359, Tltle B, of the Unlted Sttrtes Uoclo,
pt.ovid-es that 'Llle la',r's r.elating to natural lzatlon shaI1
apirly to allens being free white polsons, and to a-llens
of .,tfrlcan natlvltlr ancl to persons of l\f::ican clescent.
Petitioner l-s ad;rlttedly not of Afvj-can natlvlty or. descent
It ls tlie coniention o-f ti:e Di-rector.that tlre netitioner ls
not a free lrhJte Derson.
In a note ap'.rencied bo its o1:ini.on ln l[orrlson v.
Callfornia, zgL rJ, 3. 82, t1; ls statedt: llThere is a- straln
of fncl:lrn bloocl in na.nlr of tlr.e lnhabltants of l,texlco as
wel] as i.n tLre neoples of Central ancl South Anerlca. x x x
a
of such ciescent may be naturalizecl ln the
Unlted Siates is sti1l an unsettled. questlon.rr The
cluestion is now rai.sed as to an allen of one-half rnclian
';Thether pei:sons
b1ood.
v. United sjtatesr zuo U. ,S. 178, tito
ru1 e is asserted- that 'itire ,j,iords t,.'rhite personr 1:,rere neant
to lndicate on1;r e person of r,"il'r.at ls popularly knolrn as the
caucasian race.rr The terr,r exclud.es the chinese, Japanese,
Ilindus, the r\iirerican rnd.ians and. the Filiplnos. Llorrlson
v. Californla, 291 U. ,S. 82; Unlted States vo Thlnd., 26I
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u. s.
Oza-uEr
204.
The Supr.eme uourt
further
stated_
ln l{orrlsorr vo
California, supra, tl:.at " x x x lnen are not';;hj_te lf the
straln of color"ed. blood. ln thern ls a half or a quarterr orr
not lnrprobably, even less, 'lJre governlng test alvrays
(Unitecl States vo thind, 261 TJ. S. 2O4) being tir.q.t of
conurlon understancllng." rrppllcants of one-half Japanese, on
half Chinese, ancl one-iralf Ja.panese-Chlnese bloofr resi;ectlv
lyr ]rave beon helc1 1nerir15.b1e to natu-r.a1izatlon. rn re
Ihlght, I7]. F. 299i Ex parte illng, ZZ F. (2d) 584; In re
Young, 195 F. 64,5. In re Alver.to, 198 F. 688, held. an
applicant of tir.reo-quarters .l'i11plno blood lnel1glb1e. The
nearest approach to a declslon on slmllar facts ls fowrd. rn
re Cam11le, 6 F. 257, wher.eln a person of one-half Ind.Lan
blood., the mother having been an Indlan vroman of Britlsh
Colilnlcia, v/as denled naturallzatj-on. It ls rqy oplnlon that
the rule of ttrese cases applles equally to the petltj-one:r
and rerders hlm 1ne1lglb1e to cltlzenship in the Unltod
States.
In re llodrdquer,, 81 F. 337, is not consistent
v,rlth the Later declsions of the Supreme Court.
The petitlon is d.enied..
Decenber 11, 1935
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