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

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

US President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act - a wartime law last used in World War II - to deport ...

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

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

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

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s ability to use a sweeping wartime authority to quickly deport ...

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

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

“The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a xenophobic law that has been used to unjustly target immigrants in the US and should have been repealed long ago,” Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said last year.

The law has only been invoked three times while the country was at war, to hasten the removal of citizens of enemy countries. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each ...

President Donald Trump invoked an 18th century law, used only during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II Saturday to curb illegal immigrant gangs.