“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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    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.”

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      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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      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.

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      the incompetence isn’t that they made a “clerical” error. it’s that they’re acting like they’re evil geniuses, and really, they’re not. They’re like thugs, sticking up a donut shop getting nabbed because they started arguing about whether they should steal the bear claws or the lemon filled.

      The only reason they get away with it is their boy vinny runs the courts.

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    "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.

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      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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    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.

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        they’ve been unjust for quite a while now, but no, they just recently became the gestapo and they were not before.

        raiding innocent people’s homes, people whose legal status isn’t in question… and sending them to fucking El Salvador mega prisons where they never release prisoners… life/death sentences for nothing other than being hispanic is basically the gestapo, and they were not doing that before….

        separating children from parents and putting them in cages was bad… but not gestapo bad….