enemy alien
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of enemy alien
First recorded in 1945–50
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That May the French government interned her at Gurs as an enemy alien; amid the mass releases that followed France’s defeat, she left the camp and rejoined Blücher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
He was transferred from an Immigration and Naturalization Service facility in Montana to the center for enemy alien internees in Louisiana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
The British were very lenient towards him, only imprisoning him as an enemy alien for the duration of the war.
From Time ● Feb. 8, 2016
So it ended, but I somehow hope that I may have converted your mother from an enemy alien to an armed neutral!
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Christine Tucke Curtiss
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