Invoking the law could make it far easier for the Trump administration to detain and deport undocumented immigrants living in ...

The judge’s initial temporary restraining order blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans.

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th-century wartime ...

When President Donald Trump ordered the deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members on March 14, he did so by invoking a controversial US law that hasn’t been used since World War II.

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.

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

Karen Ebel and Grace Shimizu, whose fathers were held prisoner in U.S. internment camps, explain the grave cost of ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.