The law lets the president skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older who is from ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself ...

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

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizens pursuant to the president's recent ...

A judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from using a 1798 law to toughen immigration enforcement because 5 ...

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

In his inaugural address, US President Donald Trump said that the act would be a key tool in his crackdown against ...

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 ...

Legal groups took action and a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from using the law for deportations.

President Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as Friday to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants.

President Donald Trump is preparing to move on another campaign progress: using a centuries-old act to ramp up deportations. He is expected to invoke the Alien ... during World War II, a chapter ...

The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked only a few times in U.S. history, including during World War II, when the government used it to surveil and detain Italian, German and Japanese immigrants in ...