In 1919, the United States deported Emma Goldman, along with nearly 250 other foreign-born radicals. This move became possible with the passage of the 1918 Immigration Act, which permitted the deportation of “aliens” who expressed support for anarchism.
Goldman, however, claimed U.S. citizenship, acquired through her brief marriage to Jacob Kershner.
The government’s response? To strip Kershner of his citizenship on a technicality, and thereby to invalidate Goldman’s own status.
With its recent forays into denaturalization of U.S. citizens, the Trump administration appears to be modeling itself after this shameful period of American history, characterized by incitement against immigrants and repression of criticism of the government.
ETA: only skimmed the post because ... this is too close and therefor too upsetting ... so this may have been mentioned in the article or the post but i want to point out:
you gotta know it’s also to keep them from voting
because i’m pretty sure that the areas with a lot of Latinos are likely to fall blue rather than red in elections, even in an otherwise red state
but GOP will not have to worry about “the Latino vote”, if they can’t vote