Biography
William Mackie was a Portland, Oregon house painter targeted for deportation over alleged Communist Party membership from 1937 to 1939. Immigration authorities arrested him on June 17, 1952. A deportation order followed on June 30, 1953, and Mackie continued fighting removal for years. The government deported him to Finland on November 18, 1960. The surviving record does not establish his release date after the 1952 arrest.
A sworn January 8, 1958 affidavit reproduced in the Congressional Record of May 13, 1960, pages 10233–10234, identifies Willia Niukkanen, also known as William Niukkanen and William Albert Mackie, and states his birth as November 24, 1908 in Viipuri, Finland. Attorney Nels Peterson’s accompanying account independently repeats that date. His September 1952 arrest is already recorded separately from the June warrant. Source.
