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The Palmer Raids :)
﻿﻿ The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United states Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, mainly anarchists from the United States. The Raids and arrests happened in Novemer 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer. More than 500 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders. Particular targets were Germans with sympathies for their homeland and Irish whose countrymen were in revolt against America's ally Great Britain. In 1916, President Wilson warned against hyphenated americans who, he charged, had poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." The russian Revolution of 1917 added special force to fear of labor agitators and partisans of foreign ideologies like anarchism.  Declaring that a "blaze of revolution" was "burning up the foundations of society" palmer took action. Division, headed by J. Edgar Hoover, eventually became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). On November 7, 1919, palmer