President Donald Trump is reportedly considering invoking a law that is over 200 years old to support his mass deportation agenda. Here is what the Alien Enemies Act is, and how Trump could wield it.

With the 1798 Alien Enemies Law in the news as the Trump administration attempts to remove foreign nationals from the United States without the typically required legal processes, a historical view ...

Prison guards transfer alleged Venezuelan gang members to a detention center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025. El Salvador presidential press office via AP A federal judge swiftly blocked ...

A Hong Kong student at a Japanese university has been jailed for two months after she admitted publication of 13 pro-independence social media posts in breach of a colonial-era sedition law. West ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...

President Donald Trump is expected to use an 18th-century law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to hurry along his mass deportation effort. Trump has made deporting illegal immigrants, especially ...

To accelerate mass deportations across the country, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke a 277-year-old wartime law as early as Friday. The Alien Enemies Act is a law used in wartime to allow ...

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative ...

A Malaysian government crackdown under its colonial-era Sedition Act is creating a climate of fear in the country, according to rising numbers of critics who say it could stunt a recent flowering in ...