(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 ...

Sam Stein is joined by immigration lawyer Lindsay Toczylowski to discuss her client, a LGBTQ Venezuelan asylum seeker, who has disappeared after being detained by ICE.

Less than a month into the second Trump administration, the White House began publicly toying with the idea of defying court ...

His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then ...

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 ...

Greg Sargent joins Jim Swift to discuss how the Trump administration blocked aid for kidnapped Ukrainian children, effectively halting efforts to reunite them with their families.

Now, you will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn how the administration is misusing this Revolutionary-era relic to serve the ...

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

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 U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. He ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law previously used ...