(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...
His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then violated a federal judge’s order to turn the flights around.
The president’s invocation of the wartime law enacted in 1798 was quickly blocked by a federal judge. It had only been used three times before in U.S. history.
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...
Now, you will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn how the administration is misusing this Revolutionary-era relic to serve the ...
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 ...
Less than a month into the second Trump administration, the White House began publicly toying with the idea of defying court ...
The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. He ...