The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the ...

The law lets the president skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older who is from ...

To justify the immediate deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, the president is invoking a rarely used statute ...

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

(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 ...

Many of us recall from Junior High School Civics, discussions of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, enacted under the administration of Federalist President John Adams. They arose from the ...

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, claiming a Venezuelan gang invasion, to accelerate deportations of undocumented immigrants. A federal judge halted the deportation of five ...

The Alien Enemies Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1798 as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts. This legislation grants the President authority to detain or deport non-citizens from ...

It is one of four laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and, Nager said, the only one that wasn’t repealed or modified in 1801 or 1802, when Thomas Jefferson was president.

passed the Alien Enemies Act as part of the four Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 as the U.S. stood on the brink of war with France. "There was a lot of fear-mongering about French supporters in ...

None of that exists," Ebright told CNN last year. Other laws passed at the time - collectively known as the Alien and Sedition Acts - expired a few years later, Ngai says, but the Alien Enemies ...