Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former President Donald Trump, shown here in August near the US-Mexico border, has said he'll use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prison guards transfer alleged Venezuelan gang members to a detention center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025. El ...

At the core of US President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy is his use of a 1798 wartime authority allowing presidents to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy country.

In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to safeguard national security in times of war. Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, ...

President Donald Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings. The move could ...

Using the 227-year-old law to argue a Venezuelan gang’s activities amount to an invasion is ‘unprecedented’, according to the Congressional Research Service Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien ...

President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Saturday in a bold plan to crack down on the scourge of Venezuela's most notorious cartel. The sweeping wartime authority allows the ...

The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II Monday 17 March 2025 16:18 GMT The U.S. deported hundreds of ...

After Texas congressman Brandon Gill announced he would be filing articles of impeachment against S. District Judge James Boasberg, the billionaire chimed in with a self-righteous one-word declaration ...

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law previously used when the US was at war. The law has been invoked three times before — most recently ...