Abstract
Kwong Hai Chew was a Chinese seaman and the first Chinese elected official of the National Maritime Union. When he returned from a trip to Asia during the Korean War, he was detained and excluded by the Attorney General on national security grounds as a subversive. After he was detained two years, the Supreme Court in 1953 ruled he could not be detained without any notice of the charges against him. However, it took fourteen years of litigation to reverse the Attorney General's determination. He was finally naturalized by court order in 1967. His case illustrates the dangers of the use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings. This case study is part of a larger legal historical work that examines McCarthy era political repression in New York's Chinatown. That repression occurred principally through the medium of immigration law enforcement.
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