J. MICHAEL WALLER: How J. Edgar Hoover, at age 23, rounded up and deported foreign anarchists & communists.

ACLU was set up in 1920 to prevent J. Edgar Hoover from deporting foreign subversives - mainly anarchists and communists.

Imagine how much greater America would be had Hoover succeeded. https://t.co/tbxzGgkyTx

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) August 31, 2026

1917, Immigration Act of 1917. 

1918, Sedition Act of 1918.   

1918, Armistice of November 11, 1918.

Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It, J. Edgar Hoover [1895-1972], 1958.