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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFriend 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 thats what we have become.

KT2000
(21,371 posts)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
(5,681 posts)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. Im already in the process of leaving this country . But I still could get one of those letters.
ALBliberal
(3,013 posts)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
(42,093 posts)Don't those to funds belong to Elon Musk and the DOGE boys?
Skittles
(163,581 posts)until these fascist fucks are out of power
Warpy
(113,251 posts)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
(9,956 posts)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.
Thats what Trump has brought us.