President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born ...

Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...

At a time when the current presidential administration is tightening control of the media and even invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – which Adams signed into law alongside the Sedition Act ...

In Proclamation 10903 on March 14, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to declare that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua ...

It is one of four laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts — and, Nager said, the only one that wasn’t repealed or modified in 1801 or 1802, when Thomas Jefferson was president.

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering invoking a law that is over 200 years old to support his mass deportation agenda. Here is what the Alien Enemies Act is, and how Trump could wield it.

What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798? The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, was established under President John Adams as the U.S. faced war with France.