which was part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, was established under President John Adams as the U.S. faced war with France. The act was designed to allow the president to authorize the relocation ...

Watkins, a case involving a German national who was ordered to be removed in 1946 under the Alien Enemies Act, despite the end of fighting in World War II. In a 5-4 decision, the high court ...

Watkins, a case involving a German national who was ordered to be removed in 1946 under the Alien Enemies Act, despite the end of fighting in World War II. In a 5-4 decision, the high court ...

the Alien Enemies Act. The Act allows a president to detain or deport citizens of foreign adversaries to the United States, but only in the case of a "declared war" or "invasion." Now, the Trump ...

It grants the U.S. president the authority to detain, restrict or deport foreign nationals from a country that is at war with the United States. Unlike other provisions in the Alien and Sedition ...

"The United States is not at war, nor has it been invaded. The president’s anticipated invocation of wartime authority — which is not needed to conduct lawful immigration enforcement ...

The Alien Enemies Act empowers presidents to apprehend and remove foreign nationals from countries that are at war with the United States. U.S. presidents have issued executive proclamations and ...

The Alien Enemies Act empowers presidents to apprehend and remove foreign nationals from countries that are at war with the United States. U.S. presidents have issued executive proclamations and ...

Yet the U.S. government imprisoned these men for years in World War II internment camps. Their internment was declared permissible under the Alien Enemies Act, a law that allowed the wartime ...

A federal judge barred President Donald Trump on Saturday from using a wartime powers act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing, ordering the administration to turn around ...

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 ...

Similarly, during the Second World War, Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust were jailed in Tennessee as “alien enemies” under the act on the basis of their German nationality. The ...