What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts were used to persecute Democratic-Republican ... and the Naturalization Act was repealed by Congress in 1802. Only the Alien Enemies Act remained in effect following ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday issued a 59-page report stating that the US should repeal the Alien Enemies Act. HRW emphasized that US obligations under international law have drastically ...

President John Adams regretted signing the Alien & Sedition Acts.  Imagine what he would say today if he learned that one of ...

But the Alien and Sedition Acts were also a way for Adams' Federalist ... When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams in 1801, he repealed the other three parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts or let ...

TICHENOR: The Alien and Sedition Acts were incredibly unpopular ... completely done away with and repealed? TICHENOR: I think because it wasn't really used. So the Sedition Act was used.

That statute, An Act Respecting Alien Enemies of July 6 ... people in the US who were nationals of hostile foreign powers on grounds related to national security. US obligations under ...