The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen.

What is the Alien Enemies Act? It's an 18th-century law that allows the president to detain or deport immigrants from countries the U.S. is at war with. In more than 225 years, the law had been invoked just three times,

By dusting off this disgraced law and using it to deny people their rights, President Donald Trump seeks to erase the moral and legal progress of eight decades. And unlike Roosevelt, who invoked the law after what was then the deadliest attack on the United States in history,

The Trump administration has been sued nearly 200 times, including about 20 times by Minnesota, and there’s concern about a war with the law.