The Justice Department on Tuesday refused to answer questions from a federal judge seeking more details about deportations carried out under a rarely used wartime act, leading the judge to issue a ...

The Alien Enemies Act — part of the Alien and Sedition Acts that Congress adopted in 1798 — gives the federal government additional authority to regulate non-citizens in times of war.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due process. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Hamed Aleaziz Maggie Haberman Karoun ...

The act was introduced amid escalating tensions with France in the late 18th century. US President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act - a wartime law last used in World War II ...

President Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as Friday to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants, including to Guantanamo Bay ...

Their internment was declared permissible under the Alien Enemies Act, a law that allowed the wartime detention and deportation of noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian ancestry without any ...

President Trump invoked the Aliens Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798 on Saturday, fulfilling a campaign promise and GOP party platform point by initiating a concerted effort to remove Venezuelan ...

The court’s 5-4 ruling Monday night requires those challenging Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to rely on a complicated and rarely successful legal process known as habeas corpus ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself sweeping powers under a centuries-old law to deport people associated with ...

He is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, as USA TODAY previously reported. It would be the first time in more than eight decades that the act was enacted. The last time it was used ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 ...

Here is what the Alien Enemies Act is, and how Trump could wield it. What is the Alien Enemies Act? The Alien Enemies Act is one of four laws adopted in 1798, as America was on the edge of war ...