Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from countries the U.S. is at war with. In more than 225 years, the law had been invoked just three times,

By dusting off this disgraced law and using it to deny people their rights, President Donald Trump seeks to erase the moral and legal progress of eight decades. And unlike Roosevelt, who invoked the law after what was then the deadliest attack on the United States in history,

A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members is lawful, in contrast to two other judges.

The Trump administration has been sued nearly 200 times, including about 20 times by Minnesota, and there’s concern about a war with the law.