enemy alien

In his appeal on behalf of the Trump administration, Sauer said the judge had ordered “unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil.”

District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, had ordered “unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight.”

Picasso — who had not previously sought citizenship — may have been motivated by fears of an imminent Spanish-German alliance, which would have classified him as an enemy alien.

He was transferred from an Immigration and Naturalization Service facility in Montana to the center for enemy alien internees in Louisiana.

But at least he was given a hearing before an Enemy Alien Hearing Board by the Department of Justice under the Geneva Convention.