Donald Trump brings back 227-year-old wartime law under ‘one condition’

The law was invoked last month – and now the Supreme Court has said Trump will be allowed to continue its use, under one condition (Picture: Getty)

President Donald Trump will be allowed to deport Venezuelan migrants under an 18th-century wartime law, the Supreme Court has said – under one condition.

Controversial even when it was introduced, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was last used to intern 120,000 people of Japanese heritage, along with tens of thousands of Germans and Italians, during World War Two.