The most serious clash occurred when a revenue cutter cornered the smuggling vessel the Black Snake near the mouth of the Winooski River in Burlington. A smuggler and a local teenaged boy shot at the ...

President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798​ to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members kicked off a legal battle.​ ...

President Donald Trump ordered a report on the U.S. southern border that may or may not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act.

The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the ...

President Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as Friday to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants.

One of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders mentions the potential use of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to carry out his immigration policies. The act allows presidents to call on ...

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

President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th-century wartime law to deport hundreds of immigrants, most of them Venezuelans ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday urged the international community to implement an arms embargo and targeted sanctions ... including indiscriminate air-strikes, summary ...