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Edo Mita

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Communism
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Biography

Edo Mita was a Japanese-American in Los Angeles whose deportation case, grounded in alleged Communist political association, was ordered reheard in 1958 under the Supreme Court's Rowoldt decision, which had held that nominal past Communist membership was not a basis for deportation.

Case

Charges: Walter-McCarran Act deportation
Sentence: Fighting deportation; case reopened Charges as recorded: Walter-McCarran Act deportation — alleged Communist association
Convicted: Deportation case reheard under the Rowoldt decision