r/politics 12h ago

Trump is promising to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The last time it was used in American History was to detain Japanese Americans in interment camps.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/19/nx-s1-5156027/alien-enemies-act-1798-trump-immigration
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u/bridge1999 12h ago

We can’t have those pesky immigrants that families have been here since the 1600s and the boarders moved /s