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Mikail Lavrinuk

AKA: Michael Lawrinuk
Released
Date of birth:1891
Era:1910s
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 20 Days
Support
Anarchism Union of Russian Workers Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Mikail Lavrinuk was born 1891 in Russia. Immigrated to the United States in 1914.

Joined the Union of Russian Workers in New York around 1918 and the IWW in 1919. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he was deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.

Case

Ellis Island Immigration Station
Charges: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Union of Russian Workers member) in the First Red Scare.
Arrested: November 1919
Incarcerated: November 1919
Released: Dec 21, 1919
In exile since: Dec 21, 1919
Sentence: Held from arrest until the deportation sailed: deported to Soviet Russia aboard the Buford transport on December 21, 1919, with the detention (principally at Ellis Island) recorded as the custody span. Charges as recorded: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Union of Russian Workers member) in the First Red Scare. Documented in Kenyon Zimmer’s Red Scare Deportees index, drawn from INS deportation files.
Institution State: New York