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Dec 15, 2024 | 
newstribune.com | Katherine Ebright
Advertisement Advertisement President-elect Donald Trump is getting ready to repeat a shameful mistake from our nation's history. As part of his plans for mass deportation, Trump has promised to dust off the Alien Enemies Act, last used by President Franklin D.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
ledger-enquirer.com | Katherine Ebright
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, Aug. 22, 2024. (Olivier Touron/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) TNS President-elect Donald Trump is getting ready to repeat a shameful mistake from our nation's history. As part of his plans for mass deportation, Trump has promised to dust off the Alien Enemies Act, last used by President Franklin D.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
chicagotribune.com | Katherine Ebright
President-elect Donald Trump is getting ready to repeat a shameful mistake from our nation’s history. As part of his plans for mass deportation, Trump has promised to dust off the Alien Enemies Act, last used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II to hold 31,000 noncitizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent in internment camps based on their ancestry.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Katherine Ebright
In wartime, the United States must protect its people and territory. Doing so may require actions that might not pass legal or political muster in peacetime, such as the preventive detention of enemy combatants for the duration of the war. But the Alien Enemies Act, an authority that permits summarily detaining and deporting civilians merely on the basis of their ancestry, goes too far and must be reconsidered.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
justsecurity.org | Katherine Ebright
Former President Donald Trump has promised voters that, if re-elected, he would “immediately” invoke the Alien Enemies Act to effect mass deportations of non-citizens from Mexico. He reportedly plans to apply the law broadly, targeting non‑citizens who are not suspected of any cartel involvement or narcotics trafficking.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Katherine Ebright |Faiza Patel |Ivey Dyson |Elizabeth Goitein
FISA “REFORM” AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT: THE BIGGEST EXPANSION IN GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE SINCE THE PATRIOT ACT Despite its name, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act is not a reform bill. It would enact the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act, while doing nothing to rein in the abuses we’ve seen under Section 702. ● Section 504’s massive expansion of surveillance.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez |Katherine Ebright |Faiza Patel
FISA “REFORM” AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT: A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING Despite its name, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act is not a reform bill. It is an anti-reform bill in disguise. Not only does it fail to rein in warrantless surveillance of Americans under Section 702; it would actually expand surveillance in critical respects, effectively rewarding the FBI for years of misconduct and thus encouraging even more flagrant abuse in the future.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Katherine Ebright |Faiza Patel |Ivey Dyson |Elizabeth Goitein
Section 702 Backdoor Searches: Myths and Facts Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance and therefore may only be targeted at foreigners abroad. But the surveillance inevitably sweeps in Americans’ communications. Despite Congress’s mandate to “minimize” the retention and use of such communications, the FBI, NSA, CIA, and NCTC routinely search Section 702-acquired data for Americans’ phone calls, emails, and text messages.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Katherine Ebright |Faiza Patel |Ivey Dyson |Elizabeth Goitein
In 2008, Congress enacted Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government’s capacity to conduct surveillance of suspected foreign terrorists. The law permits the National Security Agency to acquire the communications of almost any foreigner abroad without obtaining an individualized court order. Although the surveillance may only be targeted at foreigners abroad, it inevitably sweeps in large amounts of Americans’ phone calls, texts, and emails.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez |Katherine Ebright |Faiza Patel
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was enacted to make it easier for the government to address foreign terrorist threats. The law gives the government broad authority to surveil non-Americans located abroad, but targeting Americans is prohibited.
