The US Department of Justice, under a zealous Attorney General, is rounding up thousands of legal residents for detention and summary deportation. Disloyalty and membership in illegal organizations are alleged but not proved. I refer, of course, to 1920. - ThreadSky

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The US Department of Justice, under a zealous Attorney General, is rounding up thousands of legal residents for detention and summary deportation. Disloyalty and membership in illegal organizations are alleged but not proved. I refer, of course, to 1920.

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norton.bsky.social•28 days ago

The “Palmer raids” of 1919-1920 were directed by the Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer.

Louis F. Post of the US Department of Labor fought back, cancelling hundreds of invalid deportation orders.

norton.bsky.social•28 days ago

As the Acting Secretary of Labor, Post was briefly responsible for the Bureau of Immigration, which administered deportations.

norton.bsky.social•28 days ago

Palmer’s allies in the House of Representatives tried to impeach Post. In his statement to the House Rules Committee, Post explained that the Palmer raids violated the Constitution of the United States.

norton.bsky.social•28 days ago

“An alien as well as a citizen is protected by the universal principle that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law,” Post explained.

norton.bsky.social•28 days ago

Toleration of unconstitutional abuses of authority against resident noncitizens was both wrong in itself, he warned, and a threat to the civil liberties of all Americans.

norton.bsky.social•28 days ago

Congressman Edward Pou, one of Post’s critics, changed his mind.

“I believe you have followed your sense of duty absolutely,” Pou said.

The committee dropped the impeachment.

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