In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump's invocation of an 18th century wartime ...

The court fight focuses on the Trump administration's use of a 1798 law to deport people it claims are part of the Venezuelan ...

In a 226-year span, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had been invoked only three times — until now. President Donald Trump ...

A Trump Justice Department attorney asserted to a top D.C. federal judge at a hearing Monday afternoon that the government ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

A minute-by-minute timeline of events of the Trump administration's race against the clock to deport alleged members of the ...

Karen Ebel and Grace Shimizu, whose fathers were held prisoner in U.S. internment camps, explain the grave cost of ...

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

The act is a sweeping wartime authority that allows noncitizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go ...