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Suey v. Backus (1912)
nPetitioner argues “Congress did not intend, notwithstanding the terms of the act in question, to make it applicable to a Chinese woman married to an American citizen lawfully domiciled within this country”
nCourt responds: “We find nothing in the previous decisions of this court which exempts Li A. Sim from the operations of the statute as an alien person. . . . The object of the act was to exclude alien prostitutes, or, if they entered and were found violating the statute within the period prescribed, to return them to the country whence they came. A married woman may be as objectionable as a single one in the respects denounced in the law.”