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Bisbee deportation of striking miners

On July 12, 1917, a deputized force of about 2,000 vigilantes rounded up roughly 1,200 striking miners, labor organizers, and suspected sympathizers in Bisbee, Arizona, and forcibly deported them by rail into the New Mexico desert.

Bisbee deportation of striking miners

The mass, extra-legal deportation was one of the most notorious assaults on labor and civil liberties during World War I, provoking national outrage and highlighting tensions over labor rights, wartime security, and federal authority.

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