President Donald Trump just invoked the Alien Enemies Act on March 15—without regard to its role in justifying the wrongful internment of Max, Susumu, and thousands of others during World War II.

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.

"The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a xenophobic law that has been used to unjustly target immigrants in the US and should have been repealed long ago," Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said last year.

The Alien Enemies Act, enacted in 1798, is a wartime authority that allows the U.S. government to summarily detain and deport civilians from enemy nations merely on the basis of their ancestry ...

(The Alien Enemies Act was one of the three laws that comprised the Alien and Sedition Acts.) As Madison explained, there are two categories of "offences for which aliens within the jurisdiction ...

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled in April that probable cause existed to find the Trump administration in criminal ...

A pair of Trump appointees overturned an order Boasberg issued in April initiating the potential contempt proceedings.

The Alien Enemies Act was supposed to expire with the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1801, but instead the Alien Enemies Act remained in effect and became part of the United States Code. The act was ...

“The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a xenophobic law that has been used to unjustly target immigrants in the US and should have been repealed long ago,” Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said last year.

The Alien Enemies Act was written during a phony war and is now being used to justify another phony war. The 1798 law is often referred to as a “war-time” act.

Wilson used the Alien Enemies Act to impose sweeping restrictions on the residency, work, possessions, speech and activities of foreign nationals from places that the U.S. was at war with ...