Answer: They were laws created by federalists to silence opposition and discourage immagration.
A series of laws known famously as the Alien and Sedition Acts were signed/passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into official law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. In one of the first tests of freedom of speech, the House passed the Sedition Act, permitting the deportation, fee/fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing false, deceitful, or deceptive writing against the government of the United States. Here we can see that the federalist Want to silence foreign activity/opposition by improsoning foreigners spreading false information and stopping them from voting, as well discourage immigrations by having the ability to deport them,
