As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting 137 ...

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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law previously used when the US was at war. The law has been invoked three times before - ...

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The Alien Act was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen. | Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain (document); desifoto/DigitalVision ...