While it may sound far-fetched, the Trump administration is asserting that it has unlimited power to remove anyone it wants from the country. According to them, that means you— the person reading this article—could be expelled from the United States without meaningful recourse.Even more chilling, the administration has claimed it could make a deal with a foreign power to imprison you indefinitely. And if it made a mistake? It could simply say that it has no authority to bring you back.You might wonder whether this is hyperbole. I hope that it is. U.S. citizens are supposed to be protected from deportation. But what is happening no longer fits that definition. Removal from the U.S. requires due process, but the administration has flouted those safeguards in favor of rapidly sending people out of the country. It now claims it might permanently dispatch U.S. citizens to the same prison in El Salvador, while also washing its hands of the ability to bring anyone back.President Donald Trump has repeatedly tested the boundaries of the Constitution—suggesting he could end birthright citizenship, floating the idea of a third presidential term, and expanding immigration enforcement to anyone deemed objectionable. That includes Legal Permanent Residents participating in protected political speech. Last week, the administration again flouted the rule of law, declaring "dead" thousands of immigrants who are lawfully in the U.S. so that it could terminate their Social Security numbers and put them into financial purgatory.This all started with targeting immigrants. But the target is no longer just undocumented immigrants or those accused of crimes. While the government insists that it is going after terrorists and gang members, it offers no evidence. Those who have "followed the rules" are now just as likely to be snatched up by masked men in unmarked vehicles and whisked away to a jail thousands of miles from home.But immigrants are not the only target. The Trump administration is laying the groundwork that could easily be used against U.S. citizens. The United States has a shameful history of detaining and deporting citizens, from the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to more recent cases. In the past several months alone, ICE has detained U.S. citizens. Legal scholars—including several Supreme Court justices—worry that under the government's position, even U.S. citizens "could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress."This all started when Trump began using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rapidly deport people by falsely claiming they were part of an invasion by a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. Many Venezuelans deported under this theory have no connection to Tren de Aragua. In several cases, the only "evidence" was that they simply had tattoos. One man had an autism awareness tattoo, while another, a professional soccer goalie, had a trophy insignia.The fact that we even know about this evidence is itself a minor miracle. The federal government initially refused to give any information about the hundreds of Venezuelan men who were sent to a prison in El Salvador known for torture and human rights abuses. The Department of Justice claims that this information is part of a "state secrets" privilege and that neither the public nor any federal judge should get to see it.Now, the administration is escalating its plans to strip citizenship from naturalized citizens and disappear them to a "black hole" of "systematic torture" for the rest of their lives.If the Trump administration can grab a person on the street and send them abroad to a foreign prison without oversight, it is possible that U.S. citizens could end up disappeared.So, what to do? Political representatives are sensitive to elections, as is evident in the close races in Florida on April 1. Trump has also demonstrated his concern by asking New York Representative Elise Stefanik not to give up her seat for fear that it would flip to a Democrat, risking the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.One way of expressing your political power is to vote accordingly. But lawmakers are also responsive to phone calls from their constituents. Such efforts have already led to the restoration of funding in Republican districts following federal cuts that impacted farmers and rural areas.Call your representative. Call your state attorney general. Tell them you will not stand by while the government builds the power to disappear your neighbors—or you. Our rights are only real if we defend them. Now is the time to speak up.Matthew Boaz is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. He currently teaches immigration law and previously practiced for a decade, primarily representing detained individuals in deportation proceedings.The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.