At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put during World War I in order for the armed forces to be able to conscript more Americans. ... These Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. ... Nationalist Americans called for the stop of the Bolshevik Revolution that was taking place in America. ... One of the first assignments of this agency was to raid The Union of Russian Workers in New York. ... On December 27, around 250 deportees sailed for Russia from...

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