Trump’s Fake Invasion and the Shredding of Our Constitution

by Rob C.

Donald Trump has declared an “invasion” at the southern border—again. Not because there’s an actual military threat, but because he needs a legal excuse to set the Constitution on fire and call it law and order. If immigrants are “invaders,” then he thinks he can skip over that pesky part of the Constitution that says people have rights. You know, habeas corpus—the rule that says the government can’t just toss you in a cell without a trial. It’s kind of the cornerstone of democracy. But Trump’s take? “Too much paperwork.”

He says we don’t have enough judges to process asylum claims, so his solution is simple: abolish due process altogether. Just round up millions of people and deport them without a trial. Boom. Dictator checklist… Done .

But he’s not stopping with undocumented immigrants. Now it’s legal residents in the crosshairs. Green card holders. Refugees. People who’ve lived here for decades. And what makes them dangerous? Not crimes—opinions. If your politics lean left, if you criticize Trump, if you once said “Black Lives Matter” out loud, suddenly you’re a threat to national security.

This is ideological cleansing, wrapped in red, white, and blue. The First Amendment is now conditional on how many flags you fly in your Twitter bio.

And behind it all? Stephen Miller, the man who makes Dracula look like a golden retriever. A lifelong white nationalist with a law degree and a grudge. He’s spent his career crafting policies that make cruelty a feature, not a bug. He’s the guy behind family separations, Muslim bans, and now, mass raids and detentions with no trials. Because when Stephen Miller looks at the Constitution, he sees a to-do list of things to destroy.

Meanwhile, Trump suddenly discovers his big, beautiful heart when it comes to white South African farmers—the same Afrikaners who enforced apartheid. They’re granted asylum, no questions asked. Because in Trump’s America, if you’re white and scared, you get a green light. If you’re brown and desperate, you get a cage.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t immigration policy. It’s the authoritarian playbook. Invent a crisis. Declare an emergency. Strip rights from “the others.” Call dissent unpatriotic. Burn the rules and claim it’s for safety. And watch the crowd cheer.

But here’s the part they forget: once rights become optional, no one really has them. Once the president gets to decide who deserves a trial and who doesn’t, that power doesn’t stay limited to immigrants. Today it’s asylum seekers. Tomorrow it’s protesters. Journalists. You.

Authoritarians don’t stop with “them.” They just start there.

And if we let them rewrite the Constitution one racist lie at a time, we won’t need to worry about a border crisis. We’ll be living in one giant detention camp, run by billionaires in red hats, telling us we’re free because we can still shop on Amazon.

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