Vladimir Borisyuk

AKA: or Borisiuk/Borisink; Walter Borisuk
Released
Date of birth:1893
Era:1910s
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 20 Days
Support
Communism Union of Russian Workers Communist Party USA
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Biography

Vladimir Borisyuk was born 1893 in Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Worked as a laborer. Immigrated to the United States in 1914.

Member of the Socialist Party of America who then paid one month’s dues to the Communist Party of America. Authorities also suspected he belonged to the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested in Hartford, Connecticut, in November 1919 during the first Palmer Raids. Deported on 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 (Communist Party USA 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 (Communist Party USA member) in the First Red Scare. Documented in Kenyon Zimmer’s Red Scare Deportees index, drawn from INS deportation files.
Institution State: New York

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