"[1] This time of massive scare also generated intense fear of foreigners as most aliens were seen as conspirators. Many alien related laws were passed and massive arrests were made during this time. It was not a good time for immigrants as "the federal government consistently targeted alien radicals, deporting them [...] for their speech or associations, making little effort to distinguish true threats from ideological dissidents."[2] series of bomb explosion targeting Attorney General Palmer led to the controversial Palmer raids in which tens of hundreds of aliens were arrested on one pretext or another. Initially the American public responded in a positive manner and in one of its articles, the Washington Post stated, "There is no time to waste on hairsplitting over infringement of liberty," and similarly the New York Times saw the arrests as "souvenirs of the new attitude of aggressiveness which had been assumed by the Federal agents against Reds and suspected Reds"[3] but praise soon turned to criticism and eventually the scare died down.
But this was not a permanent death. The second wave of Red Scare was seen during late 1940s, which coincided with spying fear from communist states. This was a time when tensions between Soviet Union and America were at its peak and Red scare was again ignited. The second wave has also been called McCarthyism because of the influence of Senator McCarthy in turning this fear into full-scale internal war.
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