With the 1798 Alien Enemies Law in the news as the Trump administration attempts to remove foreign nationals from the United States without the typically required legal processes, a historical view ...

Prison guards transfer alleged Venezuelan gang members to a detention center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025. El Salvador presidential press office via AP A federal judge swiftly blocked ...

We can punish people for conduct without criminalizing speech. But punishing people for their views or values is irresistible ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from countries the U.S. is at war with. In more than 225 years, the law had been ...

Google Books Ngram, an online tool that tracks the historical frequency of word usage in print, showsremigration peaking in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) A federal judge swiftly blocked the deportations and ordered the planes carrying ...

President Trump has recently invoked an 18th century law, the Alien Enemies Act, to justify rapid deportations. There's now a legal battle over whether they can continue. But where did this law come ...

Reading the 1798 Alien Enemies Act the only way it can be read, Texas Federal Judge Fernando Rodriguez has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from using the old law to ...

President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...