Hundreds have been deported, but is it constitutional?
President Donald Trump invoked a law nearly as old as the US itself on Friday, March 14 – and by the following morning, a federal judge had blocked it. Nevertheless, the administration managed to deport some 300 illegals under the new law, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. So, what is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, and does it really grant Trump more power to detain and deport illegals than he already had?
The Alien Enemies Act and How Trump’s Using It
Back in 2019, Smithsonian Magazine released its “Special Issue on America at War.” What they found in their analysis was that the US spent about 93.5% of the calendar years between 1775 and 2018 involved in some war, somewhere, leaving only around 20 years of peace in the nation’s history. Despite this,…
