Now, you will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn how the administration is misusing this Revolutionary-era relic to serve the ...
US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...
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 ...
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 ...
His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then ...
Less than a month into the second Trump administration, the White House began publicly toying with the idea of defying court ...
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 ...
Trump’s allies like billionaire Elon Musk have previously proposed impeaching judges who attempt to block the administration’s anti-immigration efforts. But it’s the first time that Trump has publicly ...
The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. He ...
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