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Trump defends use of Alien Enemies Act

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What is the Alien Enemies Act, and why is Donald Trump considering it?

President Trump is considering invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a law that is 200+ years old, to further his mass deportation agenda.

Trump May Soon Try to Use the Alien Enemies Act as a Tool for Deportation

Media reports indicate the Trump Administration may be about to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool to facilitate deportation: The Trump

Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 Venezuelans he says are associated with a Venezuelan gang.

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Trump Invokes Alien Enemies Act as Tool for Deportation - Federal Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order Against it [Updated]

President Donald Trump issued an executive proclamation invoking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport ...

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Alien and Sedition Acts were reviled in their time, and John Adams was not sorry to see them go

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

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What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798? What to know about the rarely used wartime law

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

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The Alien Enemies Act Has Been an Offense Against the Constitution Since Birth

Now, you will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn how the administration is misusing this Revolutionary-era relic to serve the ...

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