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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act of 1798, assuming wartime authority to speed up mass deportations (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously referred to the name as the Alien ...

Image source, Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via Reuters At the core of US President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy is his use of a 1798 wartime authority allowing ...

The Trump administration is free to use a wartime powers law to speed up deportations after a Supreme Court ruling on Monday. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — which Trump used last month to deport ...

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 ...

The Alien Enemies Act was enacted in 1798 to combat spying and sabotage during tensions with France. It authorizes the president to deport, detain or place restrictions on individuals whose primary ...

Donald Trump tried to invoke a law last used during World War II against Japanese Americans to target a Venezuelan gang, but ...

A federal appeals court ruled the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 can’t be used to deport members of Tren de Aragua, which has been a target of the Trump administration. The act was established to give ...

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of being in a ...

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.