In the late 19th century, in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants began arriving in California in search of opportunity, enticed by the promise of employment with mining ...
Prison guards transfer alleged Venezuelan gang members to a detention center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025. El Salvador presidential press office via AP A federal judge swiftly blocked ...
President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law previously used when the US was at war. The law has been invoked three times before — most recently ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will strike the word “alien” from its state laws, getting rid of what Gov. Gavin Newsom called “an offensive term for a human being” that has “fueled a divisive ...
The Alien Act was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen. | Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain (document); desifoto/DigitalVision ...
The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...
As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th ...