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ALBliberal

(3,390 posts)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 10:47 PM Apr 2025

Friend I grew up with born in Mexico naturalized

Citizen as a toddler an engineer by trade lived his life here raised a family here in USA now 60 years old seems worried about receiving a possible letter to “self deport” that might be coming.

Guess that’s what we have become.

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KT2000

(22,223 posts)
1. Friend is concerned about going to Canada
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 10:53 PM
Apr 2025

to visit family. She is dual citizen but they are hassling people returning to the US - even citizens. She is going to take the number of a US immigration lawyer just in case.
WTF!!!

sdfernando

(6,108 posts)
2. I wonder if I will receive one was well
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 10:54 PM
Apr 2025

I am of Mexican decent. Both parents, 100%! But my father was in the Army and both one of my brothers and I were born in Munich Germany. I have Naturalization papers, no U.S. birth certificate. I’m already in the process of leaving this country…. But I still could get one of those letters.

ALBliberal

(3,390 posts)
3. I know he has land in Mexico. Dual citizenship of
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 10:59 PM
Apr 2025

course. But sucks that he or any of above has to be thinking along the lines of bailing from the land you grew up in.

And what about banked social security? Seems more precarious for all of us but more so for those not born here.

Awful.

dchill

(42,660 posts)
7. "And what about banked social security?"
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 01:20 AM
Apr 2025

Don't those to funds belong to Elon Musk and the DOGE boys?

Skittles

(172,910 posts)
4. I definitely advise he not make any trips out of the country
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:48 AM
Apr 2025

until these fascist fucks are out of power

Warpy

(114,682 posts)
5. If he has gotten such a letter already
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 01:07 AM
Apr 2025

gell him it's not worth the paper it's printed on and to duly ignore it.

If he's got money, a small retainer to an immigration lawyer will give him someone specific to call just in case some raging idiot decides to try to intimidate him more than the letter did.

Naturalized citizens are citizens and it's going to take more than a bunch of ignorant bigots in the White House to change that.

As a citizen, he has rights. One of his rights is to ignore that letter. He doesn't have to do a damned thing, especially self deport, whatever the hell that means.

I can't wait for the class action suit over this bullshit.

aggiesal

(10,917 posts)
6. Dad was born in Colorado, Mom in Mexico. I was born in the U.S., so I'm 2nd generation U.S. Citizen ...
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 01:17 AM
Apr 2025

I'm 60+ years old, as an engineer for 40+ years. I've worked for companies with DOD contracts where I had very high TS clearances

I currently live 7 miles from the border with Mexico, and I've started carrying my Passport card, just in case.

That’s what Trump has brought us.

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