President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on ...

Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to send hundreds of people with alleged Venezuelan gang ties to El Salvador, ignoring ...

(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 ...

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...

Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem ...

His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then ...

The president’s invocation of the wartime law enacted in 1798 was quickly blocked by a federal judge. It had only been used three times before in U.S. history.

The U.S. deported hundreds of immigrants after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. He ...

（法新社华盛顿17日电） 美国总统川普上周末引用一项已有数百年历史且鲜为人知的战时法律「外国敌人法」（Alien Enemies Act），将逾200名据称是委内瑞拉帮派分子送到萨尔瓦多关押。

A federal judge late Monday ordered the U.S. government to provide answers about details of the Trump administration’s deportation of immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law after civil ...