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11 Fundamental Facts About the Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...
How does the Alien Enemies Act work?
What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...
Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States
By dusting off this disgraced law and using it to deny people their rights, President Donald Trump seeks to erase the moral ...
Trump is digging up old immigration policies to help his crackdown. Here’s a timeline for how we got here
Immigration policy being at the forefront of politics is nothing new. From the nation’s founding to modern day, the policies ...
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Historical precedent: Courts wrestle with White House's 'invasion' claim
Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for ...
What Is Habeas Corpus and How Is It Under Threat By the Trump Administration?
This right also extends to noncitizens held within the United States, and in the case of those migrants who have been ...
Federal judge in Pennsylvania rules that Trump's invocation of AEA is lawful
A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members ...