El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there.

Trump labeled the Tren de Aragua an invading force on Saturday when he invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a little-used authority from 1798 that allows the president to deport any non

Judge James E. Boasberg barred the administration from using a 1798 law to deport migrants. Does a constitutional crisis loom between Trump and the courts?

President Donald Trump’s March 15 deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members, in possible defiance of a federal judge’s order, deepened a battle over the limits of presidential authority and the courts’ ability to check the chief executive’s power.