Word: raissa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S.-born Communist Earl Browder, finally became a legitimate alien immigrant eligible for U.S. citizenship, thus ending a four-year tug of technicalities over her illegal entry from Canada in 1933. The benevolent cooperation of immigration and consular officials ended her long dispute over her deportation (never enforced) by allowing her to re-enter the U.S. from Canada with a legally stamped visa...
...Raissa Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S. Communist Leader Earl Browder (see cut), was able to "dissipate the doubts" of the Board of Immigration Appeals as to her testimony that she was not a Communist. This dissipation is at best a six-month reprieve. To avoid deportation as an undesirable alien, she must now go to Canada or Mexico, wangle an immigration visa from a U.S. consul. If the consul says Yes, she is a suitable prospective citizen with no further doubts to dissipate...