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** Palmer had ordered a series of raids on offices of the union of Russian workers in 12 cities on November 7th, 1919. After this, a ship left from New York to Russia with 249 immigrants whom had been deported from our counrty. Then in Januray of 1920 he ordered another raid, yet this time it was on a series of radical organizations, almost 6,000 people were arrested. The New York state legislature expelled five members of the Socialist Party who had been elected to the legislature. After this 32 of our states passed what we call a sedition saw making it impossible to join groups against revolution. In tlate 1920 FBI authorities found thousands of suspects and over 600 people were deported. **