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 US Used the Alien Enemies Act to Detain Their Families. Now, They Are Watching History Repeat.
Last used during World War II, the law served as the legal rationale behind the forced relocation and internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, as well as people of German and Italian descent.
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Our Fathers Were Interned Under the Alien Enemies Act. This Law Should Be Repealed, Not Revived
As “enemy aliens,” immigrants like Max could be subject to internment for the duration of the war. And, like Susumu, ...
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Book Review: Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War
This view, which dominated the literature for some fifty years, changed recently as a few historians learned of the relocation and internment of German and Italian Americans…. Yet some texts allege ...
A History of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the Alien Enemies Act in July 1798 as the United States came to the brink of ...