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 ...

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

The President of the United States is widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world. Since the ratification ...

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