NOW THEY'RE SENDING DEPORTATION MESSAGES TO NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS

I saw this on Bluesky last night:

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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— Nicole Micheroni (@nicolemicheroni.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Here's the letter, sent to Micheroni's work email address:

As Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council points out, this is not a hoax or an isolated event.

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM

The Politico story says:

DOGE’s bread and butter has been slashing headcounts but it is now wielding its influence deep inside the nation’s immigration system....

Key DOGE engineers now embedded at DHS include Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine, (aka “Big Balls”) and Mark Elez, according to their government email addresses. At least two others, Aram Moghaddassi and Payton Rehling also have access to DHS data, as DOGE fingerprints are spread throughout DHS, including Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency....

Their first mission: implement parole terminations for 6,300 undocumented immigrants who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. That effort required coordinating with the Social Security Administration to have their Social Security numbers effectively canceled by adding them to a database that tracks dead people, the New York Times and the Washington Post first reported.

So even if DOGE and DHS eventually get back to Micheroni (and other recipients of this email who aren't immigrant parolees) and say, "lol, jk, you don't have to self-deport," it seems possible that the recipients have had their Social Security numbers canceled.

But DOGE and DHS are presumably using using other databases if the recipients include a Canadian.

Reichlin-Melnick points out that quite a few recipients are discussing this email in a Reddit thread. The user who started the thread assumes the email is fake.

ATTENTION: SCAM email from “CBP” And “DHS”

PLEASE PLEASE be aware of potential scam email from donotreply@cbp.dhs.gov

Some of these email contain info about deportation, termination of parole, leaving the country, compliance check and etc. Those emails may be a scam and I would recommend to talk to attorney before you click ANYWHERE or do ANYTHING.

But Reichlin-Melnick says:

There is no reason to believe this is a scam. Thousands of people got it in the last 24 hours. It is reportedly part of their ongoing effort to strip hundreds of thousands of humanitarian parole. They aren’t even sending letters by mail. It’s just an email, and it’s being sent to wrong people too.

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— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM

If you're a typical American, you're response to this and other outrageous acts by the Trump administration is: My life is fine. Keep kicking out immigrant gangsters and routing out waste, fraud, and abuse, guys! Trump's approval rating is still in the mid-40s because, in addition to the MAGA cultists, millions of other Americans believe that only vicious criminals are being deported and only unnecessary government expenditures are being curtailed. They believe all this is being done thoughtfully and with the best of intentions, not recklessly and vengefully.

But even if most Americans don't care about the fates of these email recipients, they should know that the government will undoubtedly apply this level of recklessness and mercilessness to something that matters to them very, very soon. They won't believe it until it happens, and even then they might believe Trump is still a swell guy. But he isn't, and nother are the people executing these mad plans. And they're coming for most of us.