Judges in Texas and New York have temporarily barred the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans jailed in parts of those ...

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of ...

The ruling said a judge can't block Trump’s plan nationwide but made it clear that people swept up must have a chance to ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked deportations of immigrants in Colorado who face possible removal under President ...

Most recently, President Franklin Roosevelt invoked the act after the attack on Pearl Harbor, designating Japanese, German and Italian nationals as "alien enemies" during World War II. Roosevelt's ...

Before this month, the law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, had been invoked just three times: in the War of 1812, World War I and, most memorably, in World War II, when it was used to justify the ...

Use of the Alien Enemies Act during World War II led to the incarceration of thousands of civilians of Japanese ancestry—many American citizens. The White House claims implementing the law is ...

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II last month in an effort to quickly deport alleged Tren de Aragua members to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Trump ...

The last and perhaps most significant time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was during World War II. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the law to authorize the arrest, detention ...