The ACLU and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to speed along deportations of Venezuelan nationals. A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to rapidly deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua through use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. On Saturday, Trump
The measures would dedicate personnel, training, and resources to monitor transnational repression from authoritarian regimes and protect target groups. House lawmakers have reintroduced three bipartisan bills to strengthen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in countering the growing threat of repression from authoritarian regimes on U.S. soil. “Transnational repression occurs when the Chinese Communist Party
Trump also signed a proclamation invoking an 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to further target the Tren de Aragua gang. The Trump administration is set to pay El Salvador $6 million to hold about 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang and two alleged members of the MS-13 gang in
Feinberg has suggested opening defense manufacturing opportunities like Ford and General Motors to boost the overall defense industrial base. The U.S. Senate confirmed Stephen Feinberg as the deputy secretary of defense on March 14, moving him up to the number two position at the Pentagon behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Feinberg was confirmed in a
WASHINGTON—It may have been the two decades navigating the challenges of leadership in Christian ministry that best prepared Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for his latest role in elected office. For 15 years in that earlier period of his life, the soft-spoken Oklahoman directed the largest youth camp in the United States. More than 51,000 young
Tren de Aragua ‘is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States,’ Trump said. President Donald Trump on March 15 invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—a law allowing for quick deportation of foreigners during times of war or invasion—and ordered the immediate arrest and removal from
The strikes occurred on the same day U.S.-led joint forces killed a deputy leader of ISIS, Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai. President Donald Trump announced on March 15 that he ordered the U.S. military to “launch decisive and powerful” action against Houthi terrorists in Yemen. The aerial attacks, which he said are to restore navigational freedom,