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From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.

Title Threat of dissent : a history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States / Julia Rose Kraut.
Publisher Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Creation Date 2020
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Sovereignty and Self-Preservation -- 2. War on Anarchy -- 3. Making Democracy Safe in America -- 4. Denaturalization, Detention, Deportation, and Discretion -- 5. An Iron Curtain of the West -- 6. The Return of McCarranism -- 7. One Door Closes, Another Opens -- 8. War on Terror -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Extent 1 online resource
Language English
National Library system number 997012489820305171
MARC RECORDS
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