{"id":109229,"date":"2025-03-13T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-expected-to-invoke-wartime-alien-enemies-act-to-carry-out-mass-deportations-sources\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:03:23","slug":"trump-expected-to-invoke-wartime-alien-enemies-act-to-carry-out-mass-deportations-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-expected-to-invoke-wartime-alien-enemies-act-to-carry-out-mass-deportations-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump expected to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-13\/News_JapaneseCivilians_31325.png\" alt><figcaption>Hulton Deutsch\/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act &#8212; a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation &#8212; as part of the efforts to carry out mass deportations, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Department of Defense is not expected to have a role in the invoking of the authority, which could be used to deport some migrants without a hearing<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There have been discussions inside the administration about invoking the act, multiple sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Trump had previously said on the campaign trail that he planned to invoke the act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The act hasn&#8217;t been used since World War II, when it was used to detain Japanese Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During World War II, the Alien Enemies Act was partially used to justify the internment of Japanese immigrants who had not become U.S. citizens. The broader internment of Japanese-Americans was carried out under executive orders signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and not the Alien Enemies Act since the law does not apply to U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulton Deutsch\/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) &#8212; As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act &#8212; a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation &#8212; as part of the efforts to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-expected-to-invoke-wartime-alien-enemies-act-to-carry-out-mass-deportations-sources\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}