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 and the Naturalization Act was repealed by Congress in 1802.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 ...

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

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday issued a 59-page report stating that the US should repeal the ... part of the broader Alien and Sedition Acts, authorizes the president to apprehend, restrain, ...

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 When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams in 1801, he repealed the other three parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts or let ...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 completely done away with and repealed?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 ...