President John Adams regretted signing the Alien & Sedition Acts.  Imagine what he would say today if he learned that one of ...

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from ...

From the column: "Trump’s and the Republican Party’s apparent desire to control the citizenry parallels that of the ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the applicability of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to the deportation of Venezuelans, we must go back to the time of the statute’s ...

Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones, of the border city El Paso, has halted west Texas deportations under the Alien ...

Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains active—and it’s been at ...

It won’t surprise anyone to learn that American politicians have long been suspected of being untrustworthy, and at worst, ...

As markets faced uncertainty, Trump backed off and issued a 90-day pause to most nations, with the exception of China. Trump ...

Trump has used the 1798 law, which was passed by John Adams, to deport without due process hundreds of accused gang members to a mega-prison in El Salvador. The couple whose release Briones ...

Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei from NPR's Throughline talk with Daniel Tichenor, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, about the origins of the Alien Enemies Act.