An American citizen is unsettled after receiving an e-mail from the US Department of Homeland Security ordering him to leave the country "immediately."
  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    7 hours ago

    having a non-western anglo saxon name is enough to get deported.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      111·
      18 hours ago

      Judging by how the people in power seem to like badly implementing ideas from cautionary sci-fi books, here’s my guess:

      They’re probably using a point system. If you have an immigration hearing, a million points. If they find your name on a visa (not even necessarily you), that’s 20 points. If they find your name on an arrest record, that’s 10 points. If they find your name on any immigration court records, that’s 10 points

      Then they sort the list, send ICE after people with the highest scores, and are slowly emailing their way down the list to anyone with like 50 points or more

      • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
        131·
        18 hours ago

        works at a nonprofit assisting immigrants in court

        and apparently, if you’re an attorney or staffer at a non-profit that assists migrants and immigrants in court… ten bazillion trillion mega points.

        this guy isn’t the only one being targeted.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          I know the logical sequence of events is probably the attorney being an informed contact as a representative having their details caught up in a crude, talentless scrape and the axiom about incompetence over malice but i realllly think this is a case of ¿Por qué no los dos?

      • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        17 hours ago

        Off topic, is there a way on Lemmy to link to a specific comment/post so I could still remain on my instance?

        For exempt this opens web browser to lemmy.world, I’m on lemmy.ee and would still want to stay within the app on my own instance.

        Edit: this time on topic. Yeah, they very likely are using LLM for decisions. Same thing happened with those ridiculous tariffs. I can’t believe they are this dumb to believe LLM is anything more than a fancy chat bot and isn’t actually thinking.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    17 hours ago

    Why are they expecting people to react to emails, anyway? If I got this in my email, I would assume it was just spam. A letter that comes by snail mail would get my attention, though.

    Are legal notices regularly sent by email now?

    • The_Caretaker@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Title 8 Section 1182(d)(5)(A) The Secretary of Homeland Security may, except as provided in subparagraph (B) or in section 1184(f) of this title, in his discretion parole into the United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit any alien applying for admission to the United States, but such parole of such alien shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien and when the purposes of such parole shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, have been served the alien shall forthwith return or be returned to the custody from which he was paroled and thereafter his case shall continue to be dealt with in the same manner as that of any other applicant for admission to the United States.

      It makes no sense at all to try and apply this to a citizen or a visa holder.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      22·
      17 hours ago

      I can’t wait to use this to scare my MAGA neighbors. Thanks for the template.

      • walktheplank@lemmy.world
        15·
        15 hours ago

        You should be accessing the registered Republican party members list and emailing them this. Just the low level voters. Not the big guys. 10 or 15 per day. Every time one of these stories break, send more.