A federal appeals court ruled the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 can’t be used to deport members of Tren de Aragua, which has been a target of the Trump administration. The act was established to give ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...

The Trump administration cannot legally restart deportations of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. The court had already temporarily stopped the ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from countries the U.S. is at war with. In more than 225 years, the law had been ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of short-circuiting rights protected by US constitution. The act’s recent invocation ...