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The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Suspend Habeas Corpus. Read That Again.

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Establishing Project Homecoming

cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/206911

First, Trump issued an executive order to militarize domestic law enforcement. Now a new order has come out. Buried in Project Homecoming, the executive order just released by the White House, is the single most dangerous shift in American civil liberties in a generation.
The same man who empowered ICE with military-grade surveillance, armored vehicles, and counterterror tools is now pushing the legal justification to detain people indefinitely.
The administration is laying the legal groundwork to suspend habeas corpus, the constitutional right that protects people from being detained without trial. It’s the right to not be disappeared. It’s the foundation of due process. And they’re getting ready to tear it away.
How? They’re invoking the Suspension Clause of the Constitution, which only allows habeas to be revoked “in cases of rebellion or invasion.” Stephen Miller and the Trump legal machine are now planning to label undocumented immigration as an “invasion,” which would let them bypass courts and jail people without charges, trials, or legal representation. The administration is trying to reclassify undocumented immigration as an invasion to unlock those powers. That’s the strategy.
Let that sink in. They’re preparing to create a class of people who can be detained indefinitely without ever seeing a judge.
Ask yourselves, If anyone can just be disappeared off the streets without charges, without court appearances, without access to a lawyer then do we still have a democracy?
This is just the beginning, it won’t stop at immigrants. So let’s be clear about what this will look like.
Indefinite detention. No due process. No hearings. No legal protections. We’ve seen this playbook before in history—and it always starts with creating a legal exception for a specific group. In this case, it’s undocumented immigrants. But legal exceptions do not stay contained. Once the precedent is set, it expands. Always.
Ask yourself: who defines what an “invasion” is? Who decides who qualifies as a threat? Protesters? Activists? Whistleblowers? Once the right to challenge detention is suspended for one group, the door opens to expand it. That is how authoritarianism consolidates power.
While they call this “restoring order,” here’s what they’re really doing:
They’re tearing $96.7 billion out of the economy. That’s how much undocumented immigrants contributed in taxes in 2022, Specifically:
• $59.4 billion in federal taxes
• $37.3 billion in state and local taxes
• $33.9 billion toward social insurance programs they are banned from accessing
Again, these are people paying into Social Security, Medicare, and public infrastructure they’re not even allowed to use.
The source? The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read it yourself. https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
California alone would lose $8.47 billion in annual tax revenue if these mass deportations succeed. Texas would lose $4.87 billion. New York? $3.1 billion. Every state would feel the economic gut punch. And don’t forget: these are programs undocumented workers pay into but cannot use. They’re helping hold up a system that offers them nothing in return.
Now ask yourself: who is going to make up that lost revenue?
You. The poor. The working class. Not the rich, who continue to dodge taxes with impunity.
The federal government has already slashed funding to the states. Wealthy elites are sitting on tax loopholes and lower effective rates than working people. The answer is obvious: the working class will be left to cover the difference. Your rent, your healthcare, your school funding—all of it will take the hit.
What we are watching is economic sabotage wrapped in xenophobic theater. It is designed to scapegoat immigrants, distract from billionaire tax breaks, and destroy civil liberties in the process.
We have reached a dangerous tipping point. A government openly discussing the suspension of habeas corpus is a government no longer pretending to be democratic.
Habeas corpus is the line between freedom and fascism.
If we let this fall, there is no turning back.
This is the moment where people either pay attention or pay the price. Be ready.
Read the order. Learn what’s happening. Sound the alarm. Talk to your communities. And above all, do not get used to THIS.
Originally Posted By u/transcendent167 At 2025-05-10 10:37:42 AM | Source

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That second amendment of yours actually has a purpose and this is it. You have the constitutional right to form militias to fight against tyrants.
- Uh yeah, nothing like a violent revolution to make things better. I shudder to think about the kind of authoritarian government that would be created out of fellow citizens murdering each other.
  We need a peaceful revolution. Anything else is just tantamount to exponentially more human suffering.
  
  we’re coming up to death camps as the alternative
  
  Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Isn't that literally due process?
- Yes.
- Essentially.

Bout to find out who REALLY supports the spirit of the 2nd amendment. Noticed that the usual “mah rahts” crowd is silent on this one.
- Your typical gun nut is a fascist/racist boot licker and the rest of us tend not to be that loud.
  All that my guns are going to do for me is see to it that I die in a hail of gunfire from whatever form of gestapo shows up someday.
  Armed protesting works only when there’s twenty or more people. I don’t know hardly anyone who is armed because my local fellow Democrats treat owning guns like shitting your pants on purpose.
  
  The objective is to take out two. Just two. Even one would be ok, but two: that's a win.
  The problem is that the American public never benefited from the insurgency training the US gave to Afghanistan rebels during the Russian occupation. Nobody likely to rebel knows how to make IEDs, or how to booby-trap their houses. And a lot of people don't realize just how useless handguns are for these situations. The Army doesn't even issue handguns to infantry, because they're practically useless.
  Long guns are cheaper, more likely to penetrate body armor, and more accurate. Folks, when you're arming yourself, skip the Glock and get a hunting rifle.
- I think you're under valuing the importance of the "mah" part for these people.
  They (Trump voters, and many Americans in general). are the most selfish people on the planet. They will gladly shit on anyone's rights to make themselves feel successful at their own life goals. I would also like to emphasize feel successful, because they would chop off their foot to own the libs
  
  I know how self centered they are. I like to highlight their hypocrisy although at this point it’s lit up like a neon Vegas sign so maybe there’s no point anymore.

Ight, looks like we gonna play this the hard way

For all of the enlightened left who said that Biden wasn't a good president, who said that Harris shouldn't be on the ticket. This is what you spoke for when you spoke against them. Your words go both ways. When you speak against your own party, you embolden the enemy. So, do us all a favor from now on and keep your fucking mouth shut.
- It’s fine to criticize the party you vote for and participate in, because we’re not in a cult, and we’re not into leader worship.
  There’s a reason we don’t typically see democrats flying giant Biden or Harris flags on their lifted F-150s - because we’re not completely fucking nuts.
  It’s ok to criticize Harris and still cast a vote for her in the general, against a far, far, far more horrible opposing candidate. No human being is perfect or infallible, and the job of US president shouldn’t be taken lightly at all. Someone running for that job should be able to handle a little bit of criticism.
  I’m not sure Biden or Harris were our best of all possible choices. I said so. And I still encouraged people to vote for them in the general election.
  
  The problem is that all of that was done on the eve of the election. If there is a problem with the Democratic party, fix it in the other 3.5 years. Railing against your only hope when shit like this is on the line is the worst way to go about change. It brought no positive outcome. Where are all of those naysayers now? Are they working with their local government to fix things? More likely they are bitching about something new and no making any effort to affect change.

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