It was passed as part of a series of laws in 1798 when the US believed it would enter a war with France. The act states that "whenever there shall be a declared war [...] or any invasion or ...

The president has drawn criticism for invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a widely condemned law that makes it easier to detain foreign citizens Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty President ...

Originally passed in 1798, the Alien Enemies Act has rarely been used over the past 200 years. It was most recently deployed during World War II to justify the detention of Japanese noncitizens ...

NAIROBI, March 20 (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic ...

In order to transfer the detainees to El Salvador, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a law passed in 1798 that has been used only three times before. The act confers "extraordinary powers to ...

Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for the deportation, which a judge halted but the Trump administrated went ahead with the deportation claiming that planes already left the US territory by ...

For as far back as he can remember, Russell Endo heard from relatives about his grandfather’s arrest in 1942, when an FBI agent took him from his home in Southern California under suspicion that ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as Upper Nile state governor, according to a decree read on state media. The move appears to breach a peace deal under ...

As part of his efforts to crack down on immigration, President Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an obscure law that has been used sparingly throughout U.S. history to detain or ...

Below is a look at the act and how it has been used in the past. The Alien Enemies Act was enacted in 1798 to combat spying and sabotage during tensions with France. It authorizes the president to ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that increased the federal government's reach. The ...

President Trump has called for Judge Boasberg to be impeached after he ruled against the administration over the president’s efforts to use a law from 1798 to speed deportations. By Karoun ...