Email to Massachusetts lawyer warned her to ‘depart the US immediately’ even though removing US citizens is illegal
A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen is speaking out after she received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country.
Nicole Micheroni described receiving an email on 11 April – and that its heading was “notice of termination of parole”.
“It is time for you to leave the United States,” the email read. “If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States.”
Micheroni told NBC Boston: “At first I thought it was for a client, but I looked really closely and the only name on the email was mine.
Why do people always refer to foreign people as aliens? It sounds so degrading and shitty.
BECAUSE it sounds so degrading and shitty.
It’s easier to make scared people hate innocent strangers when you make them sound inhuman and frightening.
It’s the same tactic hateful demagogues have used since before recorded time began.
Deep cultural xenophobia leads to dehuminization
leads to? try is.
The word literally means “not from here.” In the bible, Jesus tells us to be kind to the alien among us, and he wasn’t talking about men from Mars.
But it’s 100% intended for making people think of scary monsters from other planets.
It’s a deliberate dehumanization tactic as old as organized xenophobia itself.
The way they pronounce “foreigners” is practically just as humiliating.
At any rate the lawyer in this article is a natural born citizen of American citizens. But I don’t think that protects her either at the moment. Hopefully the uprising that would happen if she was kidnapped would be so overwhelming as to stop the whole thing.
So let’s uprise now and stop it. See you Saturday.
It predates aliens as little green men. And I’m sure the word is a legally recognized phrase. It’s quickly becoming, if not already a slur though. Here’s googles etymological breakdown.
The word “alien” originates from the Latin word “aliễnus,” meaning “belonging to another, foreign, strange”. It’s a derivative of “alius,” meaning “other,” ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root "h,élyos. This root also gives rise to the word “else”. The word “alien” entered Middle English from Old French, and its earliest usage as a noun and adjective in the 14th century referred to foreigners or strangers.
Don’t bring the predator into this!
It is degrading and shitty and you bet your bottom dollar they know it. They use this language as just a smaller part of the larger machine the right wing government uses to gather tone deaf and ignorant citizens and encourage them to hegemonize people who don’t look like them. I’ll tell you that for free.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/alien
Any degradation is a modern connotation.
They aren’t people. They’re filthy fucking nazi trash.
us aliens also have an Alien Number on our green cards so we can be dehumanized while being dehumanized
Because the world is older than you are.
Misunderstanding the meaning of words is so alien to me.