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I live in an area where people ask you where you're from and if you actually live in the neighborhood. They may assume you don't speak English, like they have with my wife.

ICE has already gone through the town nextdoor, and I'm waiting for our turn. I'm light-skinned, but my wife and kids are dark with Mayan features. I fear that all anyone has to do to terrorize my family is call a hotline. We have all our citizenship documentation, but that doesn't matter anymore.

I keep waiting for the day when I'm going to have to defend my family, but I might not even be around when things take place. What if they come take my wife while she's at work? What if she goes shopping and never comes back?

I have nothing without my family. I have nothing.

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[โ€“] D_C@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Personally I'd move out of the country completely. It's going to get worse over the next few years not better.
If the fat orange paedo is still alive at the next election, and if there is a next election, I feel that he'll just go the insurrection route again. However I also feel that there won't be an election, he'll deffo do whatever it takes to become a dictator etc etc.
And if he dies then the regime that controlled and enabled him will still be there to carry on their work. Because, let's face it, all this that's happening isn't his idea. The useless orange child rapist doesn't have the mental capacity to have ideas. So the next person will just carry on.
So, again, I'd just leave if at all possible.

If you can't leave the country could you move to a friendlier state?
Or move to the town that's just been ransacked, do you know what the chances of the Gestapo going through that town again?
If your neighbours are asking where people are from then it's not exactly a friendly town to live in the first place.

It's no help to you but I'm sorry you have to live like this.

[โ€“] msokiovt@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Not OP, but my question is when moving out altogether would be prevented. I know my family and I were cobsidering moving out by 2030.