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An arcane wartime law President Donald Trump recently invoked to carry out the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members could open the door for federal agents to enter residences without a warrant, according to the New York Times.

Trump last week signed a proclamation ushering in the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as he took aim at Venezuelan citizens the administration branded as belonging to the notorious Tres de Aragua gang.

But a reading of the language by senior Justice Department lawyers, together with the historical context of the law, has led the Trump administration to believe “that the government does not need a warrant to enter a home or premises to search for people believed to be members of that gang,” the Times reported Thursday.

“It remains unclear whether the administration will apply the law in this way, but experts say such an interpretation would infringe on basic civil liberties and raise the potential for misuse,” according to the Times report. “Warrantless entries have some precedent in America’s wartime history, but invoking the law in peacetime to pursue undocumented immigrants in such a way would be an entirely new application.”

The legal view sent experts into panic mode over concerns that constitutional freedoms, including the the Fourth Amendment’s requirement for a court order to