A Brief History of the U.S. Government’s Targeting of Left-Wing Immigrants - Throughout U.S. history, right-wing forces have used the denial of citizenship to restrict political dissent.
On September 8, 1947, federal agents walked into the midtown Manhattan office of the Hotel, Restaurant & Club Employees & Bartenders Union Local 6 and arrested its president for being an “undesirable alien.” Michael J. Obermeier had been organizing hotel workers into a succession of scrappy independent unions since he arrived in New York as a German immigrant around the time of the first World War. By the time of his arrest, he led 27,000 union members in a powerful affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. Читать дальше...