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Mike Lajan

Era:1920s
State:Wisconsin
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Biography

Mike Lajan, a former Milwaukee resident deported as a radical, wrote after arrival in his native Yugoslavia of horrific Ellis Island conditions, confinement in Italy during transit, denial of food and being left twenty-five miles from a railway station. The issue supplies no exact detention or departure dates. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/vol/v11n583-jan-26-1923-VOL.pdf#page=3

Case

Charges: Deportation as a radical.
Sentence: Actual arrival in Yugoslavia reported by January 26, 1923; Ellis Island and transit detention described, complete custody interval unresolved.