What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

Immigration policy being at the forefront of politics is nothing new. From the nation’s founding to modern day, the policies ...

Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Trump administration to resume deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies ...

For the last few weeks, there has been ongoing litigation over President Trump's effort to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 ...

the author of The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution. When the Alien Enemies Act was signed into law in 1798, the U.S. was locked in an undeclared naval war with France.