The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

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

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

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

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

President Trump justified his use of a wartime law to deport people. The CEO of Democracy Forward argues that the president ...

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

Trump announced Saturday that he would begin using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target Venezuelan migrants, citing the ...

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