President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members. Relatives of men sent ...

An extraordinary legal showdown took place over Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime act to deport hundreds of ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

The judge’s initial temporary restraining order blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans.

In a 226-year span, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had been invoked only three times — until now. President Donald Trump ...

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

A Trump Justice Department attorney asserted to a top D.C. federal judge at a hearing Monday afternoon that the government ...

Karen Ebel and Grace Shimizu, whose fathers were held prisoner in U.S. internment camps, explain the grave cost of ...

The statute justified the imprisonment in World War II of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald. She is horrified as Trump invokes it for mass deportation.

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...