eportation for criticizing the Federal government in print. Though…nter who was jailed and threatened with deportation for criticizing the Federal government in print. Though like many Founding Fathers Burr was a slaveholder, when New York began debating a bill in 1785 calling for the gradual abolition of slavery, Burr argued instead for the immediate emancipation of all slaves. Finally, he battled the anti-immigrant bias of Hamilton’s Federalist Party, which claimed only those with English heritage could be true American citizens.