Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit March 11, 1982, No. 81-5241 (Firestone v. Howerton)

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Fred Firestone, an 81 year-old immigrant from the Soviet Union, entered this country in 1920. He was a member of the Workers Communist Party from 1928 to 1940, but an immigration judge dismissed deportation proceedings against him in 1964 because the government failed to prove he had been a “meaningful member.