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Chapter 48: APPENDIX E REMOVAL OF ALIEN ENEMIES
By Emerson Hough
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This authorized history recounts the formation, organization, and wartime activities of a vast volunteer civilian auxiliary that worked with the Department of Justice and Military Intelligence during the First World War. It traces the group's origins in responses to espionage and sabotage concerns, describes its methods of surveillance, vetting of military applicants, and detection of deserters, slackers, and subversive agents, and presents official documents, statements, and first-person accounts illustrating cooperation with federal agencies. The narrative emphasizes patriotic motivation, organizational growth, operational scope, and the tension between civilian zeal and governmental oversight as it documents a large-scale semi-official domestic security effort.

APPENDIX E
REMOVAL OF ALIEN ENEMIES

R. S. SEC. 4067 (as amended). Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. The President is authorized, in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residences shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations, which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety. (Act of July 6, 1798, Chap. 66, Sec. 1, Stat. 577. As amended by Act of April 16, 1918: Public No. 131—65th Congress: H. R. 9504.)