This right also extends to noncitizens held within the United States, and in the case of those migrants who have been detained by the federal government, pending removal from the country as a part of Trump’s mass deportation plans, habeas corpus can be used to challenge.

"Reinterpreting the Constitution on a whim in an effort to grant authoritarian powers is unpatriotic and un-American."

Trump advisor Stephen Miller suggested Friday the Trump administration is considering suspending the writ of habeas corpus to more easily detain immigrants—meaning denying them the right to protest their detention—the latest suggestion by Trump officials that they want to get rid of traditional legal processes in order to carry out their hardline immigration agenda.