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Alien And Sedition Act

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The Alien and Sedition Acts authorized the President to imprison and/or deport aliens that were considered a threat to the nation. Proclamation 2527, issued on December 8, 1941, declared Italian Americans as potential “alien enemies”. It was identical to Proclamation 2526 except that it applied to natives, citizens, subjects, and denizens of Italy. The word alien means an individual who, due to permanent or temporary allegiance to a hostile power, is regarded as an enemy in wartime. During WWII, 600,000 Italian-Americans were branded enemy aliens. By the 1930s, Italians had comprised the largest ethnic group in the nation. 25,655 enemy aliens were arrested, 55% of them were either Italians or Germans during the WWII. The Army had issued a
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This event aligns with the creation of The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act made in 1918. The purpose of these laws was to forbid "spying and interfering with the draft but also "false statements" that might impede military success", as well as any ' 'statements intended to cast "contempt, scorn or disrepute" on the "form of government" or that advocated interference with the war effort" (Voices of Freedom 119). As a result, American citizens expressing their disapproval in any form regarding the war would be arrested and punished by these

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President Franklin Roosevelt released a statement regarding the enemy, specially the Germans. He demanded that: "all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies." (F.D.R.). What the President warned in his statement would happen actually happened to many Germans, as this quotes proves. "By the end of the war, over 31,000 suspected enemy aliens and their families, including a few Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, had been interned at Immigration and Naturalization Services internment camps and military facilities throughout the United States.

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The Alien and Sedition Acts that were designed and passed by Congress in 1798 established a range of restrictions on the society. Among those laws, the Naturalization Act made the process of gaining American citizenship longer and the Sedition Act was designed to forbid publishing the materials against the government. While those documents “were in conflict with the Bill of Rights”, the Congress considered them appropriate (Roark 281). The positions of people within the society regarding these laws differed. From the point of view of a recent immigrant, these laws were inappropriate for the American democratic society.

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On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, thus this order sparked the relocation of 120,000 Japanese people due to suspicion of possible espionage. The

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