The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the ...

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, claiming a Venezuelan gang invasion, to accelerate deportations of undocumented immigrants. A federal judge halted the deportation of five ...

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 invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since ...

The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked three times before - most recently as a justification for some internments during ...

It is one of four laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and, Nager said, the only one that wasn’t repealed or modified in 1801 or 1802, when Thomas Jefferson was president.

The Alien and Enemies Act is the last of the four Alien and Sedition acts, the other three which have been repealed or expired. It allows the president to detain, relocate or deport non-citizens ...

The Trump administration appealed the restraining order, alleging it is improper to delay a presidential act before it is announced, affiliate FOX 32 Chicago reported. "The United States is not at ...

“I do not believe I can wait any longer and am required to act,” he said during a Saturday evening hearing in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU and Democracy Forward. “A brief delay in their ...

Officials targeted under this policy will face visa restrictions under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a provision allowing the US State Department to deny entry to ...