In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts with the support of the Adams Administration. The Alien Act granted the President unilateral authority to deport non-citizens who were subjects of ...

A federal appeals court has thrown out a major lawsuit challenging the government’s use of the historic Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The court ruled that the case can no longer move forward because the ...

The Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to allow immigrants slated for deportation to file habeas petitions contesting their potential removal. A newly declassified memo destroys Trump’s justification ...

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A federal appeals court ruled the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 can’t be used to deport members of Tren de Aragua, which has been a target of the Trump administration. The act was established to give ...

The Trump administration cannot legally restart deportations of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. The court had already temporarily stopped the ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...

A federal appellate court ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump unlawfully invoked a centuries-old wartime law to swiftly deport Venezuelan migrants, blocking one of his administration’s most ...