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

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

An extraordinary legal showdown took place over Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime act to deport hundreds of ...

Stephen, thanks very much for being here right now. STEPHEN MILLER, WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR POLICY AND SENIOR ...

Professor of law at Georgetown University David Super speaks with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about President Trump's invoking of ...

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

President Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a tool that grants the president sweeping power to imprison and ...

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

A federal judge held a hearing on the Trump administration's deportation of more than 200 illegal immigrants to El Salvador ...

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 ...