The president’s invocation of the wartime law enacted in 1798 was quickly blocked by a federal judge. It had only been used three times before in U.S. history.

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

Now, you will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn how the administration is misusing this Revolutionary-era relic to serve the ...

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

Less than a month into the second Trump administration, the White House began publicly toying with the idea of defying court ...

The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. He ...

Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua for expedited ...

Trump and his inner circle of fascist sympathizers are systematically demolishing legal and constitutional restraints, with ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Venezuelans were deported Saturday, despite a judge’s order to stop the Trump administration from doing so.

Human Rights First unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool for immigration detention, removal and evasion of asylum law, and calls on ...