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The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United State Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals especially anarchists from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer. Though more than 500 aliens were deported including a number of prominent leftist leaders Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the Department of Labor who had responsibility for alien deportations and who objected to Palmer's methods and disrespect for legal process. The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare the term given to American fear of and reaction against political radicals in the years immediately following World War I.