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, ...

On May 3, 1913, California enacted the Alien Land Law, designed to deny Japanese families their foothold in America by denying them the right to own land. The law was tightened in 1920 and 1927 to bar ...

Alien land laws date to the early 20th century, when thousands of Japanese immigrants came to California to build a better life. They used their agricultural knowledge do to so, eventually producing ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 - ...

President Donald Trump is expected to use an 18th-century law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to hurry along his mass deportation effort. Trump has made deporting illegal immigrants, especially ...