The Palmer raids were an attempt to arrest and deport radical anarchists. The raids and arrest were lead by Alexander Mitchell Palmer and they occurred in November of 1919 and January of 1920. The officials of the U.S. department of labor were in control of the ability of deportations. They didn't necessarily believe in Palmer's ideas and tactics to achieve this goal. To achieve this, Palmer appointed J. Edgar Hoover in charge of a new division in the Federal Departments Bureau of Investigation, which is the General Intelligence division. At 9 P.M. on November 7th, 1919, the second anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, agents of the FBI and the local police violently raided and arrested Russian workers in 12 different cities. The newspapers reported that some were "badly beaten" in the raids. Some of the Russian workers later swore that they were threatened and beaten in their interrogations. They also arrested citizens who were passing by that even admitted that they were Russians. They also arrested teachers that were teaching a night school in a targeted building. out of the 650 arrests, only 43 were deported. Many more raids like this occurred before the end of this. In total, out of the 10,000 people arrested, 3,500 were held in detention, and 556 were eventually deported. I feel that out of all of these deported people at least one of them had to be unfair and unjust. That always happens when the government cracks down on something.
radicals who are awaiting their deportation trials.
Alexander Mitchell Palmer.
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