Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also slammed U.S. District Judge James Boasberg as a "Democrat activist" after he halted deportation flights to El Salvador.

The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War.

The White House said Tuesday Abrego Garcia would not be returning to the U.S., despite an ICE official admitting to a judge a day earlier that his deportation to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center was an “oversight.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he “didn’t sign” the Alien Enemies Act invocation, despite the White House saying he had done so. The March 14 invocation, featuring Trump’s ...

The president has deployed the Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport ... of Justice in a statement to The Independent from the White House. open image in gallery Donald Trump’s administration ...

D.C., where a federal judge expressed skepticism today about the White House's push to deport alleged gang members under a wartime authority known as the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge ...

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a District Court judge's order blocking the use of an obscure 18th century law to summarily expel Venezuelan immigrants. Earlier this month,