President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798​ to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members kicked off a legal battle.​ ...

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Trump cannot use an 18th century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of being in a Venezuelan ...

The Alien Act was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen. In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to ...

A federal appeals court ruled the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 can’t be used to deport members of Tren de Aragua, which has been a target of the Trump administration. The act was established to give ...

This blog was updated on March 26, 2025. Even before President Donald Trump took office, he repeatedly used “invasion” rhetoric to divide our communities and advance an anti-immigrant agenda. Last ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport Venezuelan nationals and enjoined ...

The El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas is pictured, Thursday, May 1, 2025, after a federal judge in the district barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans at the ...

President Donald Trump was blocked by a federal appeals court from using an 18th-century wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants his administration says belong to the ...