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 ...

A judge in California on Monday blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants in the Los Angeles area, ruling that the government hasn't ...

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

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans he alleges are part of a criminal gang. The 5th US Circuit Court ...

The Trump administration's claims that illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as an "invasion" or a "predatory incursion" under the Alien Enemies Act go against the major questions doctrine. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is free to use a wartime powers law to speed up deportations after a Supreme Court ruling on Monday. The ...

Fifth circuit says Alien Enemies Act can not justify removal of Venezuelans accused of gang ties in peacetime A court ruling that blocked Donald Trump from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport ...

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 ...

Lots of people like to throw around the word "unprecedented” when they talk about U.S. President Donald Trump, especially now that he has taken the extraordinary step of invoking the Alien Enemies Act ...