Historic Ruling Revives Centuries-Old Wartime Statute in Crackdown on Transnational Gangs
An 18th-Century Law Just Reshaped Modern Immigration Policy — and Raised Alarms Nationwide Few could have predicted that a law born in the shadow of muskets and revolution would find new life in a 21st-century courtroom. But in a stunning legal turn, a federal judge has just done what many thought unthinkable: invoked the Alien …