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.

The Alien Act was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen. In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to ...

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 ...

Justices block Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants; judge frustrated by DoJ’s failure to detail efforts to return wrongly deported man. This blog is now closed. Reuters is ...

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 1798 Act was last used to justify the internment of Japanese-American civilians during World War 2 PRESIDENT Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act against the Tren de Aragua gang as he ...

Jonathan Freedland examines current debates surrounding immigration and legislation in the light of the 1905 Aliens Act; the first act to introduce immigration and registration controls into Britain ...

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 ...