Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war
(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting 137 Venezuelans he says are associated with a Venezuelan gang.
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John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...
President Donald Trump issued an executive proclamation invoking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport ...
The law lets the president skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older who is from ...
Now, you will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn how the administration is misusing this Revolutionary-era relic to serve the ...
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A judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from using a 1798 law to toughen immigration enforcement but Venezuelans were deported anyway.
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