Every week — day, sometimes — something new comes out from the Trump administration that makes me feel sick to my stomach. Today’s item makes me feel more afraid than I have yet this year.

According to Stephen Miller, the administration is seriously looking at suspending habeas corpus.

Oh.My.God.

For those of you not up on your Constitutional history, the writ of habeas corpus is what allows someone to challenge their detention at the hands of the state. It’s a vital piece of the process that is due when a person is deprived of their liberty. And according to Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution, “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”

It has been suspended several times in U.S. History: during the Civil War, in the Philippines in 1905 during an insurrection, and in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. George Bush tried to suspend habeas corpus for those declared to be “enemy combatants” following 9/11, but the Supreme Court struck his efforts down.

Nothing like that exists here. There is no invasion. There is no insurrection — other than that pardoned by the President himself.

There are only migrants. Migrants who are the current bogeyman of the right. He wants to strip them of their ability to challenge their deportation. And what of citizens caught up in all of this? What if his henchmen at ICE decide that some poor Latino is in the country illegally because they don’t have their papers on them?

After all, they deported a four-year old American citizen who was a cancer patient without her medicine. If they are that callous, who says that anyone in America who looks like they were born somewhere else is safe, regardless of what their circumstances are?

This administration claims to be made up of Christians. I think they’re going to have a lot to answer for if they ever stand before the throne of God.