He is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, as USA TODAY previously reported. It would be the first time in more than eight decades that the act was enacted. The last time it was used ...

A federal judge on Saturday night temporarily blocked President Trump from removing immigrants under a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 after the president announced earlier in ...

It is not clear how the government determined the nearly 300 men were part of the gang or whether they had U.S. court hearings or immigration hearings, as the Alien Enemies Act allows the ...

President Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to order the swift detention and deportation of all Venezuelan migrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua prison ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's administration deported nearly 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua under the Alien Enemies Act despite a federal judge blocking the ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president broad authority to remove undocumented immigrants, but it’s only ever been invoked during actual wartime, and legal experts have said that ...

Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to turn around deportation flights. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizens pursuant to the president's recent ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due process. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Hamed Aleaziz and Maggie Haberman Reporting ...

President Trump’s mission to stop migrants from entering the US illegally took a step further Saturday, as he signed off on a presidential action invoking a 1798 law called the Alien Enemies Act.

The judge’s order came after the administration published an executive order invoking the law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to target Venezuelan gang members in the United States. By Tim Balk ...