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What laws allowed the president to hold or deport immigrants and impose penalties for defaming the government?

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The laws that allowed the president to hold or deport immigrants and impose penalties for defaming the government were called the "Alien and Sedition Acts"--imposed with the cost of great controversy and because the nation was still young and "fragile", politically and otherwise. 
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