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What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?

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To arrest people who were thought to be radicals

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The main purpose of the Palmer Raids was to deport extreme liberal "leftists" from the United States between 1919 and 1920, since it was believed by the Justice Department as being subversive to US society. 
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