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Peter Harisiades

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Communist Party USA
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Biography

Peter Harisiades was a Greek-born, long-resident American Communist and labor journalist ordered deported under the McCarran Internal Security Act for his past Party membership, facing what supporters warned was near-certain death if returned to Greece. His became the lead test case, Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952), in which the Supreme Court upheld the deportation of long-time residents for former Communist affiliation.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran (Internal Security) Act.
Sentence: Deportation; held and fought for years. Charges as recorded: Deportation under the McCarran (Internal Security) Act for past Communist Party membership.
Convicted: Ordered deported; the Supreme Court upheld the order in Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952).