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The last and perhaps most significant time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was during World War II. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the law to authorize the arrest, detention, and ...
Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem ...
Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on ...
(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...
Less than a month into the second Trump administration, the White House began publicly toying with the idea of defying court ...
His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then ...
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...
US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...
In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Immigration attorney Brad Bernstein ...
The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. He ...