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The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and Its Revival in 2025 How a 1798 wartime law was used in March 2025 to fly Venezuelan men to a Salvadoran prison, what the statute actually says, and what the Supreme Court required before anyone else could be removed. The Chinese Exclusion Act and the First Law to Bar a People by Name How the 1882 law that barred Chinese workers built the paperwork, inspectors and court doctrines that still shape American immigration enforcement today. Why Immigration Courts Answer to the Attorney General Immigration judges work for the Justice Department, and the Attorney General can rewrite their law with a single decision. Here is how that structure works and why reformers want to change it.