Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bryan Cox/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images The Trump administration has secretly allowed immigration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An appellate judge told prosecutors Monday that “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act” than the Venezuelan ...

Immigration attorneys are scrambling to seek emergency relief from a federal court in Texas after learning that Venezuelan migrants detained there received notices that they are subject to President ...

As part of his efforts to crack down on immigration, President Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an obscure ...

The case stems from an arrest during a routine ICE check-in. Credit: Courtesy Neal via Adobe Stock The case stems from an arrest during a routine ICE check-in. Courtesy Neal via Adobe Stock U.S.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of short-circuiting rights protected by US constitution. The act’s recent invocation ...

A Border Patrol Agent patrols along a stretch of border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Brownsville, Texas. A federal judge in Brownsville extended a temporary restraining order this week that ...

In the New York Times, Devlin Barrett reports that "Trump administration lawyers have determined that an 18th-century wartime law the president has invoked to deport suspected members of a Venezuelan ...

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

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from countries the U.S. is at war with. In more than 225 years, the law had been ...

The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War. Japanese Americans deal with ...