President Franklin Roosevelt used the act to justify internment camps for people of Japanese, German and Italian descent ...
A constitutional law professor weighs in on the legal battles sparked by President Donald Trump’s controversial executive ...
With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...
The Alien Enemies Act, enacted in 1798, permits the U.S. president to deport or detain individuals from enemy nations during wartime. Historically invoked during U.S. wars with Britain and in World ...
George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...
This rarely used law, created during tensions with France, allows the president to deport or detain individuals from hostile ...
Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...
Immigration detention centers would be banned on state and county lands, and other bills in the Legislature also would ensure ...
In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...
Even when a speaker is divisive, the office they hold — and the ideas they bring — demand engagement, not retreat. That is ...