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"I think it's really scary this is going on," said Nicole Micheroni. "I think it says they're not being careful."

When Massachusetts resident Nicole Micheroni received an email on Friday from the federal government telling her to leave the country, she was baffled.

"At first I thought it was for a client, but I looked really closely and the only name on the email was mine," said Micheroni. "So it said my parole status had been terminated and I should leave the country within seven days."

But the 40-year-old is a U.S. citizen, born in Newton and raised in Sharon.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 216 points 1 week ago (16 children)

"Micheroni says she won't be reaching out to Homeland Security, and figures this is an administrative error.

She hopes nothing more comes of it."

I'm surprised she's being so sedate about this, I'd get it in front of a judge immediately to establish a paper trail.

It would also be good to find out who else they are doing this to.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Considering they already have accidentally sent somebody to an El Salvador torture prison and are ignoring a court order to even attempt to bring them back... Yeah she should really be raising hell over this.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 126 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I am torn between "This kind of amateur-hour bullshit is why they will not succeed. If you're going to be a properly tyrannical government you have to have your paperwork in order and your threats have to be credible threats, not just random bullshit with every email you can find put into 'BCC'" on one hand, and on the other hand "No one says she won't get her door kicked down and whisked away even though she didn't do anything wrong at all, just because she's one of the class of people who's historically been exempt from it. They definitely will start doing that to citizens at some point, it's just up in the air how soon it will start and how much resistance there will be."

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 85 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They're doing tyranny by testing the fences. Unlike the raptors in Jurassic Park, though, they have yet to find a spot that's properly electrified.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 41 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Guarantee you that the incompetence is on purpose. It wasn't a genocide, it was a few clerical errors, some bad AI, and a couple of lines of bad code from a junior dev. Just a big ol' whoopsie where everyone but the Nazis died.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hanlon's razor says just the opposite.

Sure, they're not worried about making mistakes because nobody's holding them to account. But, these people have proven time and time again that they're not competent.

[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Really, the thing people need to realize is that calling them morons is not understating the damage they can do. I know idiots. Idiots with power can do a HELL of a lot of damage, precisely because they are idiots. A smart person will consider consequences. A dumb ass will see a shiny button that says, "Do Not Press ; Self Destruct", get told by the people they hate, "Don't touch that we'll ALL die", and go, "Fuck you Imma touch it!"

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 109 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lol, they're sending in en masse.

I'll bet a straight white cisgender man also got it.

I mean, have you seen their OPSEC? They sent classified materials to some journalist 🤣

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Almost certainly an accident. These guys are completely incompetent.

But, that doesn't mean they won't use it as an opportunity. If nobody pushes back, they'll just keep stumbling forward.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 45 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As an outsider looking in, everything this regime does is testing the waters to see if they can get away with that, and if so how much further can they push it.

If someone doesn't actually take real action to stop it soon, it may become unstoppable.

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[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 94 points 1 week ago (16 children)

And there it is. Combine this "accident" with the Death Master List and you have a recipe for "accidentally" ruining people's lives who are retired or disabled. We know how this administration handles mistakes now as well.

What does a person who is declared dead but indeed still alive do when this happens and they lose income, housing, and medical insurance? Asking for a very terrified friend.....

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Administration "mistakenly" flags you as dead. FBI does a "stop and frisk": you present your ID. That person is dead, claiming to be them is fraud. You have no citizenship papers, so you can be deported on the accusation of fraud, sans due process. At the destination, you can call for habeas corpus, if relevant in that jurisdiction.

Don't expect the administration to "facilitate" your return in any meaningful way.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or you get sent to the concentration camp in el Salvador

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago

That is one possible destination for deportation, yes.

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[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago (5 children)

i saw someone filming supposed ICE agents on the train the other day. we need networks that identify these people and blast their faces to the public. the public needs to be a vigilante mob. the only way we put this in check is to turn the guns on them instead of us being the hunted.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 week ago

There needs to be a crowd-sourced app to track ICE, like Waze with media upload. And a slingshot with velcro-covered AirTags to keep a further eye on them.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's fucking crazy how one sided the surveillance state is. The old justification is that it is to exonerate the innocent and catch the guilty in truth it is usually to catch whoever the fuck they don't like and also will delete anything that might remotely incriminate them or release it only after their guys are acquitted as a giant fuck you (look up the murder of Daniel Shaver).

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

It wasn’t always so one sided. Jane Jacobs wrote about the power and effect of local community surveillance over the streets in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. When we zone for and build mixed use streets with enough density and points of interest to ensure foot traffic at all points in the day from a variety of ordinary people, with a healthy percentage of them being established locals, then it’s much easier for good samaritans to notice when something goes wrong (like a kidnapping attempt) and intervene. Privacy used to be a lot easier to achieve too when you needed it.

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[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Idk, that's a lot of vowels in her last name and we are returning to 1939 fascism. I wish I was joking. Ice / Homeland security is basically the Gestapo now.

[–] whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website 47 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ice / Homeland security is basically the Gestapo now.

It always has been for literally millions of people.

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[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure sounds like Anyone who isn’t MAGA should buy a gun and start training with it. Civil war is on its way.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Liberals with guns is a good resource.

Anyone considering arming themselves should be trained.

As far as civil war goes, we still have our boxes of Liberty and there are four of them. The order is important.

#Soap Box

#Ballot Box

#Jury Box

#Ammo Box

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The result of any form of armed coup will always be decided by the military. You'll have to see how deep the administration can sink its claws there before something happens.

I half expect there will be a false flag attack on the 18th or 19th. They'll use it to shut down protests using martial law and kick off the insurrection act on the 20th.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 41 points 1 week ago (9 children)

She should hire (trustworthy) security guards willing to kill. Doge Boys will be coming for her, simply because Trump's deranged word is law.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

looks like doge already replaced dhs with ai

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