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Members of the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born picket the Immigration Department on Jefferson Ave., March 23, 1950. Although Anti-Communist sentiment had been brewing in America for decades, “Red Scare” tensions erupted in the 1950s. Detroit, with its strong ties to organized labor, and a sizable population of communist party members, became entrenched in a battle between the government and their suspected enemies during the midst of the Cold War. Immigrants, because of their foreign customs, often became easy targets for arrest and deportation. |
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