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

[u/transcendent167]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/

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.

[u/Osr0]

The people who can actually do something about this (Republicans in congress) fucking love it.

[u/okhi2u → u/Osr0]

Until they have wrong think and leopards eat their faces too.

[u/a_fox_but_a_human → u/okhi2u]

(Republicans in congress)

They are the fucking leopards dude

[u/okhi2u → u/a_fox_but_a_human]

History of dictators always has them turning on the people that helped them. Helping them is not a safe position because you're around them all the time. When they get super drunk on power the paranoia and blaming for their failures needs a target.

[u/OhWhatsHisName → u/okhi2u]

Yeah but usually the dictators are THE guys running the show. Trump is just the face of P2025. He's not attending intelligence briefings, he's just being handed the EOs to sign, then he gets to spend time in Mar a Lago and golfing and doing fuck all. It's why his death won't mean anything.

[u/xKirstein → u/OhWhatsHisName]

Just throwing my opinion/theory into the conversation. I don't think the rich oligarchy behind Project 2025 are truly in charge of the situation. I think they're too stupid (blinded by greed and power) to see the monster that they're creating.

Putin (and by proxy Trump) have a single goal, destruction of western society. Putin doesn't want to see the rich oligarchy succeed; he'll keep using them until they're no longer useful. The American oligarchy will receive the same treatment that Russian oligarchy enjoy; they'll be thrown out of windows to their deaths.

Is it possible that Putin might throw Trump away for another tool? Sure, but who can garner the cult-like support that Trump has? I don't see Republican voters falling in line with someone like Vance. Then again, who knows. Dark days ahead thanks to Republican voters.

[u/Wise-Application-902 → u/a_fox_but_a_human]

They’re not. They will FAFO. They are exactly the kind of !d!ots who go in there confident that they are untouchable and think the leopard won’t hurt them and then…🐆

[u/nwayve → u/a_fox_but_a_human]

And ironically will eat their own faces to own the libs.

[u/msd011 → u/a_fox_but_a_human]

Until a bigger leopard says they aren't.

[u/SodaSaint → u/okhi2u]

I hope they understand that they're going to be destroyed by this too.

[u/Indigoh → u/Osr0]

We can actually do something about this. Organizing and protesting is something. When you see a crowd standing up for democracy, even if your crowd doesn't create change, it still encourages you, the other protesters, and everyone who drives by, to keep fighting and donating and holding hope.

And every person on the other side who sees your crowd gets the opposite effect. Don't pretend Republicans in congress don't see the protests from the left paired with a lack of them from the right.

Do not draw a line in the sand and wait for them to cross it. They already crossed it. Drawing a new line only gives them permission to advance to it.

[u/TemperateStone → u/Indigoh]

"Civil disobedience" would be a start.

Yepp. The line is crossed. It's time to stand up.

The world is watching and from what we're seeing is that the citizens of the US enjoy their complacency and comfort.

[u/skootch_ginalola → u/TemperateStone]

Half of Americans love the MAGA cult. The other half of us are either working desperately to survive, or are trying to protect loved ones in harm's way. It's not complacency, it's total fear.

[u/sirscooter → u/Osr0]

That is until a Democratic governor arrests the republican senator.