Last invoked in 1941, the Alien Enemies Act provided the legal basis for the arrest and detention of thousands of Japanese nationals. Its implementation paved the way for the eventual mass ...

The Trump administration appears to defy a federal judge's order to turn back planes carrying deportees to El Salvador, saying the judge issued a verbal, not written order.

The administration invoked an 18th-century wartime law to carry out deportations of more than 250 alleged Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members.

On his first day in office, Trump took steps to designate the Tren de Aragua gang a “foreign terrorist organization” alongside several Mexican drug cartels.

Trump’s invocation is a doubling down upon his mass-deportation mission, and setting up a crisis by openly defying the courts ...

Legal experts and civil rights advocates are raising alarm over what they call an unprecedented abuse of executive power ...

The Trump administration is invoking rarely used authorities to remove some noncitizens from the United States.

Tennessee officials are working to combat members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, as left-leaning officials push back on deportations of illegal immigrants.

The nephrologist’s deportation: The government deported Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese kidney transplant expert at Brown University, over the weekend. She had a valid visa, and a court tried to block the ...