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. Japanese Americans deal with ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law previously used when the US was at war. The law has been invoked three times before - ...

Before the current Trump administration, the law had been invoked just three times. By Tim Balk The centuries-old wartime law invoked by President Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans accused of gang ...

Nicole Brown Chau is a deputy managing editor for CBSNews.com. She writes and edits national news, health stories, explainers and more. The March 15 order was upheld by a federal appeals court on ...

Land laws passed in the name of national security echo a pattern from World War II, when the U.S. saw Japanese people as threats, said Chris Suh, a professor of Asian American history at Emory ...