An extraordinary legal showdown took place over Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime act to deport hundreds of ...

A U.S. federal judge asked the Trump administration to explain how it failed to act on its court order to halt the ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

The judge’s initial temporary restraining order blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelans.

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

The White House is insisting the Trump administration did not violate a court order when it deported more than 200 immigrants ...

Trump quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Friday for the first time since World War II to speed the deportation ...

Trump officials said the deportations don’t violate a judge’s order barring use of the Alien Enemies Act for removals -- but ...

President Trump has invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to allow the federal government to detain or deport people ...

On Monday evening, a federal judge will press the Trump Administration on whether it violated a court order forbidding the deportation of detained non-citizens with little or no due process.

A federal judge on Saturday night temporarily blocked President Trump from removing immigrants under a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 after the president announced earlier in ...