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Larry Oda, local guest commentary: Birthright citizenship is not a wartime exception

The new executive order purports to bar the children of “alien enemies” from acquiring birthright citizenship. It is wrong on multiple levels.
President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a ...
The Supreme Court lifted an order blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under ...
A federal appeals court has thrown out a major lawsuit challenging the government’s use of the historic Alien Enemies Act of ...
The three Venezuelan plaintiffs were deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act, making the court deem the challenge ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency bid by the Trump administration to resume deportations without due process under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) — an archaic law that allows the president to ...
A judge in California on Monday blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants in the Los Angeles area, ruling that the government hasn't ...
The Trump administration's claims that illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as an "invasion" or a "predatory incursion" under the Alien Enemies Act go against the major questions doctrine. A ...
"[N]otice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster," the high court stated in an unsigned ...
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration Friday from making further deportations under the centuries-old wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act, marking the high court’s latest challenge ...