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enemy alien |
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enemy alien noun adventitious, adversary, adverse, antagonist, antagonistic, assailant, attacker, barbarian, conflicting, contender, contestant, contradictory, contrasting, counteracting, differing, dissimilar, distant, emigrant, exotic, external, extrinsic, faraway, foe, foeman, foreign, foreigner, hostile, hostile nation or state, hostile party, immigrant, inimical, newcomer, opposed, opposer, opposite, outlander, outlandish, outsider, outward, remote, rival, strange, stranger, the adversary, the archenemy, the devil, the enemy, the opposiiion, the other side, them, tramontane, transalpine, transmarine, transmontane, transpacific, ultramarine, ultramontane, ultramundane, unearthly, unlike, unnaturalized citizen, wetback How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Sequestration Act, which came about in response to the Union's First Confiscation Act, allowed the Confederate government to seize property (including debts) owned by enemy aliens. The second generation, citizens by virtue of being born here in the United States, suffered the duress that their parents may or could or would be deported as enemy aliens as part of a prisoner exchange, since clearly we were not going to capture Japanese soldiers in the numbers that our soldiers were being captured in the Pacific war. While some Irish nationalists, such his father's friend "pro-German Lonnigan," applauded the Germans and took pains to defend their actions, most others, like O'Mara's mother, supported the draconian legal measures taken against enemy aliens living in port-towns. |
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