Judge Boasberg ruled the migrants are entitled to due process in determing whether they really are "alien enemies" covered by the Act. A prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Justice Department quietly invoked the Alien Enemies act last month to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress are attacking the Supreme Court for blocking attempts to deport illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act before the alleged aliens can ...