Trump is invoking the Alien Enemies Act. Here are answers to key questions about the 1798 law
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 ...
Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants even as judge orders that removals be stopped
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order ...
The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump invoked for deportations
The act is a sweeping wartime authority that allows noncitizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go ...
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Invocation of Wartime Era Authority Sets Country on Perilous Path
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 ...
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Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
A judge barred the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law the president ...
What is the Alien Enemies Act Trump invoked to speed deportations?
President Trump has invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to allow the federal government to detain or deport people ...
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Migrants Prepare to Lose Their American Lives
Although much of the controversy around immigration ... Trump was preparing to designate foreign drug cartels and gangs as “terrorists,” and pledging to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 ...