The year is 1919, and the United States has traded the Great War for the escalating domestic conflict of the First Red Scare. In this atmosphere of political hysteria, the renowned anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman, facing her own imminent deportation, joined Alexander Berkman to pen Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. This essay serves not only as a defense of the hundreds of immigrants expelled to Soviet Russia on the “Soviet Ark,” but as a stinging indictment of the American government's use of banishment as a tool to silence political dissent. Goldman argues that deportation is not a legal act but a grave moral and civil menace, designed to suppress radical thought and effectively strip American citizens of their hard-won rights by establishing a terrifying precedent of political exclusion.

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