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

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

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

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

Over a weekend when President Donald Trump secretly invoked the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act to speed up some deportations ...

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

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

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

In his latest bid to flex his fascist muscles, Donald Trump has gone digging through the compost heap of history and pulled ...

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 ...

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 ...