A law is a law no matter when it was passed. This is how Federal officials view the measure that guided them in carrying out President Donald Trump’s orders to enforce a World War II-era criminal law that requires all non-citizens in the country to register with and submit fingerprints to the government.
Since April, law enforcement in Louisiana, Arizona, Montana, Alabama, Texas and Washington, D.C., have charged people with willful "failure to register" under the Alien Registration Act, an offense most career federal public defenders have never encountered before.