As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, “coincidentally”, is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for …


EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

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    4 days ago

    Unless the immigration lawyer in question is on parole as the letter stipulated, it’s either a mistake, a malicious fake, or a malicious effort by the administration to provoke self-deportation with a wide net.