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

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

The act is a sweeping wartime authority that allows noncitizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go ...

The administration won’t identify those moved — or say whether the Alien Enemies Act, which briefly sped up some deportations ...

The law lets the president skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older who is from ...

A judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from using a 1798 law to toughen immigration enforcement because 5 ...

President Trump says he’s using the 227-year-old law to crack down on Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang. The move is already ...

In his inaugural address, US President Donald Trump said that the act would be a key tool in his crackdown against ...

President Trump has invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to allow the federal government to detain or deport people from countries deemed foreign adversaries, including targeting cartels as ...

President Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as Friday to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants.