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

The new era of Trump authoritarianism is being called by many a new McCarthyism, but that is not a good analogy. It’s looking worse than the McCarthy ...

The World Wars - While the ... and has been -- wielded against immigrants who have done nothing wrong." It has been invoked ...

Millett is one of three appellate ... hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, invoking the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II. Also on Monday, attorneys representing ...

US President Donald Trump invoked a little-known, centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to send more than 200 ...

While the law was enacted to prevent foreign espionage and sabotage in wartime, according to the Brennan Center for Justice "it can be -- and has been -- wielded against immigrants who have done ...