Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.
The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked three times before - most recently as a justification for some internments during ...
(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 ...
The law lets the president skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older who is from ...
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizens pursuant to the president's recent ...
Trump has made deporting illegal immigrants, especially members of criminal organizations such as Tren de Aragua, a priority ...
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s ability to use a sweeping wartime authority to quickly deport ...
In a 226-year span, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had been invoked only three times — until now. President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise to use the wartime act as a shortcut to deport ...
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 ...