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

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

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...

President Trump justified his use of a wartime law to deport people. The CEO of Democracy Forward argues that the president ...

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

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

President Trump invoked the Aliens Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798 on Saturday, fulfilling a campaign promise and GOP party ...

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

We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think, I don’t care what the left thinks, we’re coming,” Homan said.

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizens who are 14 years or older and come from countries staging an ...