The Alien Act was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen. In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to ...

President Donald Trump loves the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. At a campaign rally in Arizona in 2024, Trump said that when he was elected president he would use the act to target undocumented criminal ...

This blog was updated on March 26, 2025. Even before President Donald Trump took office, he repeatedly used “invasion” rhetoric to divide our communities and advance an anti-immigrant agenda. Last ...