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Guest Commentary: Alien Enemies Act is being dangerously misapplied
As our community was directly affected and wrongfully prosecuted by the application of the Alien Enemies Act during World War II, we are compelled to protest its use today to apprehend and deport ...
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th-century wartime law The high court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Judge Andrew Oldham, a Trump appointee, asked if there was any case law that shows you can “second-guess the president of the ...
President Donald Trump has faced various legal challenges regarding his use of the Alien Enemies Act, including a challenge ...
Serious doubts have been raised about the validity of evidence used by the Trump administration to substantiate Tren de ...
U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines, a Trump nominee, ruled the president is legally allowed to use the 18th-century law to deport Venezuelan migrants accused of belonging to the gang Tren de Aragua.
An appeals court heard arguments Monday over whether the Trump administration can invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport ...
Note as well that the Alien Enemies Act begins with the dependent clause, “whenever there shall be a declared war”—and, of course, the Constitution says only Congress can declare war.
Father of the Constitution James Madison made a distinction between alien enemies and alien friends.
What is the Alien Enemies Act? The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 says the government can remove people during an invasion or a "predatory incursion" launched by a foreign nation.
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 ...