WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law previously used when the US was at war. The law has been invoked three times before - ...
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 ...
In March 2025, the Trump administration invoked an archaic 1798 statute to forcibly disappear at least 137 Venezuelan nationals and summarily deport them to El Salvador, where they have been ...