Trump cited the 1798 Wartime Alien Enemy Act to expel Guantanamo
President Trump is planning to convene a wartime law on Friday called the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 to authorize brief deportations of some immigrants, including to Guantanamo Bay, escalating his administration-wide migrant repression. The 227-year-old law gives the president extraordinary power to order non-citizens over 14 to arrest, detain and deport and to “invade…