EVENTS PRT2: The Palmer Raids

The Palmer Raids were attempts by the U.S. Department of Justice to arrest and deport radicals, especially anarchistic rebels, in the united states. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Though more than 500 citizens were deported, which included a number of prominent radical leaders. Palmer's efforts were largely questioned by the US Department of Labor who had the rights of deportation and they objected who objected to Palmer's methods and disrespect for the legal processes involved. The Palmer Raids occurred in the context of the Red Scare, the term given to fear of and reaction against political radicals in the U.S., and world wide in the years immediately following World War I. For fears of socialism and Fascism's and communism.

Mitchel Palmer