“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.