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The incoming president has said he intends to use an obscure 1798 law with a sordid backstory to speed ... We had to go back to 1798,” Trump told a ... a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he planned to invoke the Alien Enemies Act as part of his pledge to deport millions of people who are in the country illegally. The Alien Enemies Act was enacted ...
And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs ...
Alien Friends Act of 1798. The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. [a] The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act of 1798 allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gave the president ...
Like the Naturalization Acts of 1790 and 1795, the 1798 act also restricted citizenship to "free white persons". The act is the first to maintain records of immigration and residence, and provided certificates of residence for white immigrant aliens, for the purpose of establishing the date of arrival for subsequent qualification for citizenship.
Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 378 (1798), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled early in America's history that the President of the United States has no formal role in the process of amending the United States Constitution and that the Eleventh Amendment was binding on cases already pending prior to its ratification.
The possible invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act is also hanging over how Trump’s anti-immigration agenda is being framed so far. That law, which Trump touted on the campaign trail, allows ...
Bull, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 386 (1798), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided four important points of constitutional law. First, the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution applies to criminal laws that have at least one of four effects: