Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...refusal would have been within the law. There are laws requiring that aliens who at any time have been affiliated with groups advocating the violent or forceful overthrow of the U.S. government "shall be excluded." This legislation, the State Department explains, "has been held to be applicable to persons who are or were members of or affiliated with the Communist Party." And Emmanuel's wartime position could technically be considered such affiliation...
...withs its amendments and one section of the Code of Federal Regulations are cited by the State Department as the legal basis for this decision. The law, enacted October 16, 1918, states, in part, that aliens "who are anarchists... (or) who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States... (or) who are members of or affiliated with any organization that entertains a belief in, teaches or advocates (such overthrow) shall be excluded from the United States...
...Alien Registration Act of June 28, 1940 extends the act of 1918 to "any alien who at any time shall be or shall have been" a member of, or affiliated with a group advocating violent overthrow...