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.
First saw this pop up on LA local news IG account, knew something was up with all the trolling responses dominating. There’s really no way to even report fake/suspiscious accounts over there. Very glad/relieved to see rational comments here.
I hope he gets armed guards. ICE is a trafficking gang.
These aren’t mistakes. The cheeseburger Gestapo are coming.
This is why I said, the first time it happened with that immigration lawyer, she should have immediately brought it to a judge.
This will keep happening until there’s some kind of court action.
And then it’ll just keep happening because there is zero enforcement.
they just open the database and search for “gomez”
One of these days they’ll mess with the wrong Gomez
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?! 😠
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.
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.
Maybe you should try to move to Canada.
I’m working on it. Family isn’t having it, but they’re coming around slowly with each passing hellish day.
I’m also waiting for my passport renewal. Fingers crossed.
Good luck, stay safe!
First they came for the …
Doesn’t matter when.
It will.
Unless you and everyone else start to speak up for the others.
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.
“Criminal prosecution” requires a system of law. However the lawless dictator that overthrew the throne has no intention of acknowledging that there is a system of law in place that doesn’t benefit him directly.
So, this could end poorly.
the lawless dictator that overthrew the throne
Beginning to wonder why we have a throne to begin with.
We don’t. It was sarcasm.
