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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Trump’s plan for mass deportations invokes 226-year-old law used to detain Japanese Americans

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Donald Trump wants to immediately invoke a more than 200-year-old wartime law that grants the president unilateral authority to deploy federal law enforcement for rounding up and deporting immigrants as soon as he enters office.

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