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Immigration: The Trump administration is invoking an obscure law that makes very little sense in 2025.

This week, Donald Trump invoked a law that played a role in one of the darkest moments in American history. Originally passed in 1798, the Alien Enemies Act has rarely been used over the past 200 years. It was most recently deployed during World War II to justify the detention of Japanese noncitizens, shortly before the incarceration of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans.

The president invoked the law through executive action, directing immigration authorities to target members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, who are “not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States.” The order proclaims that these migrants “are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies,” and it does not require the government to have evidence or grant a court hearing.

Within days, multiple flights transported Venezuelan migrants from the U.S. to El Salvador, despite a judge’s ordering the deportations to stop. Some of the families of those deported have said their loved ones had no connection with Tren de Aragua and were falsely targeted; in some cases, the families believe, simply because they had visible tattoos. Lawyers representing a group of Venezuelan immigrants suing the Trump administration over its use of the Alien Enemies Act wrote in a recent court document, “If the president