US mass deportation plan ramps up

President Donald Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings, a broad authority that could supercharge his mass deportation push.

Last used to justify internment camps for people of Japanese, German and Italian descent during World War Two, the 1798 Alien Enemies Act could allow Trump to rapidly deport migrants deemed part of an "invasion or predatory incursion".

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