California man ordered to leave the U.S. ‘immediately’ despite providing birth certificate: ‘I’m not trying to be one of the government’s mistakes’
California man ordered to leave the U.S. ‘immediately’ despite providing birth certificate: ‘I’m not trying to be one of the government’s mistakes’
An American citizen is unsettled after receiving an e-mail from the US Department of Homeland Security ordering him to leave the country "immediately."
An American citizen born and raised in California is unsettled after receiving an e-mail from the US Department of Homeland Security ordering him to leave the country "immediately."
Aldo Martinez-Gomez received the DHS notice on April 11, threatening "criminal prosecution" and fines if he does not depart within seven days.
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Martinez-Gomez works full-time assisting immigrants in court for a non-profit and believes his advocacy work may have placed him on the government's radar.
This is why they aren't allowing due process, which would expose many more "mistakes". There's likely many more who were already sent to the El Salvador concentration camp than just Kilmar Abrego Garcia. For example, this poor guy. How many more?! 😠
These aren't mistakes. The cheeseburger Gestapo are coming.
Yup. They are seeing how many people they can disappear without anyone noticing
Martinez-Gomez works full-time assisting immigrants in court for a non-profit
This is quite the Hanlon's Razor situation.
There have been a number of US citizens who have received these emails, all of them do some kind of work related to immigration. It's pretty clear that whoever sent out these emails just collected every email related to immigration work, and sent out a mass email. That satisfies Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
But! The fact that they're doing this without even a passing effort at accuracy, with no concern about getting it wrong, shows how it's motivated by malice too. It's the ICE version of a reckless homicide, they're doing something they have to know would normally get them fired if not charged. But, they don't care because the current racist administration is going to revel in the pain.
So, it's a weird situation where Hanlon's Razor is both right and wrong.
Basically you're saying, attribute the email to stupidity; attribute the stupidity to malice.
I think anybody who wasn't malicious would be very careful about this process. They would know that a mistake was possible and that they should triple-check everything they were doing. So, it's more that the stupidity is the evidence for the malice. That, and the fact that there wasn't a massive apology and attempt to correct the mistake when these news stories started coming out.
The problem with "they're just incompetent", is that it let's malicious people feign stupidity. And if it is a combination, it doesn't matter which aspects are one or the other. They are dangerous all the same and shouldn't be allowed to continue hurting people. But a combination of apathy, indoctrination, and infiltration means they'll likely never see any real consequences. Or if they do, they were likely expendable and their excision doesn't accomplish anything. People need to, at a minimum, vote. And preferably get more involved. Organize. Start local.
It may let malicious people feign stupidity, but that doesn't mean you have to just forgive them.
Fuck these fixing incompetent fascist.
Honestly as a American born Asian American, I'm just wondering when this will be happening to me.
Same. I was telling my wife I'm legitimately afraid to be walking around by myself now. I used to feel safe wherever I went and now I am always looking over my shoulder or scoping things out before I get out of my car...just to get groceries or something.
This is fucked.
If I were a judge, him using “I'm not trying to be…” would be all the evidence I’d need to prove he’s an American citizen. They must think I’m Boo Boo the Fool if they deport that man.
In an email? I would have just, rightfully so, assumed it was some type of scam.
It is a scam backed by the executive branch.
I am now completely jaded. Whatever faith I had in institutions has completely eroded. If nobody gets held accountable, who's to say everything isn't a scam? I guess you gotta just use the duck method.
they just open the database and search for "gomez"
One of these days they'll mess with the wrong Gomez
Where are they getting these emails from? I don't mean where they are sent from, but the email addresses? Do US citizens share their email with the government?
