America has always had problems with disreputable noncitizens.

In December of 1919, we came up with a solution: deportation.

We collected the most notorious revolutionaries

who were demanding that the United States become socialist

and sent them to the shining star of socialism:

Russia

in the middle of the Russian Revolution.

A total of 249 revolutionary radicals were sent to Russia.

The deportation did not stop the drive for socialism

in America.

And a lot of deportees were pleased as punch:

they, socialist revolutionaries, were getting a free ride

to the middle of a socialist revolution

in Russia.