President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself ...

The act is a sweeping wartime authority that allows noncitizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go ...

The law lets the president skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older who is from ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizens pursuant to the president's recent ...

A judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from using a 1798 law to toughen immigration enforcement because 5 ...

In his latest bid to flex his fascist muscles, Donald Trump has gone digging through the compost heap of history and pulled ...

President Trump says he’s using the 227-year-old law to crack down on Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang. The move is already ...

In his inaugural address, US President Donald Trump said that the act would be a key tool in his crackdown against ...

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizens who are 14 years or older and come from countries staging an ...

President Trump has invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to allow the federal government to detain or deport people from countries deemed foreign adversaries, including targeting cartels as ...

Legal groups took action and a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from using the law for deportations.

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.