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

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Trump administration to resume deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies ...

Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for ...

Along with the Naturalization Act, the Sedition Act, and the Alien Friends Act, it made up the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which President John Adams signed into law at a time when the U.S ...

the author of The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution. When the Alien Enemies Act was signed into law in 1798, the U.S. was locked in an undeclared naval war with France.