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Deporting 'Undesirables': Now, and a Hundred Years Ago: Adam Hochschild


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Deporting the immigrants called “undesirable” -- now, under Trump, and a hundred years ago.  Historian Adam Hochschild notes that  it’s the 100th anniversary of the Palmer Raids, where J Edgar Hoover got his start, rounding up and trying to deport radical immigrants—and when one heroic Labor Department official blocked thousands of deportations.



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