# It's happening: Federal immigration officials telling American citizens they must leave the country **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [April 18, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168 "2025-04-18T13:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/21 "2025-07-18T13:09:28Z")
They had raids here in Sacramento yesterday. There is some video. Masked men in a Home Depot parking lot grabbing men. One man called his wife and she was nearby so she is there screaming that her husband is an American citizen, but they threatened to arrest her too. The head of the group of ice officers made a statement that there is no such thing as a Sanctuary City and they are here to stay. Fucking chicken shit bastards with their faces all covered. This makes me sick. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/22 "2025-07-19T00:21:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > As a practical matter, we don’t really have much identifying information about board members. You have our real names (unless we lied). ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/23 "2025-07-19T00:33:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I remind my wife that we can walk to White Rock at low tide. So can the ICE. You think the Canadian border will stop them? ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/24 "2025-07-19T01:00:17Z")
Well if they took that route the jig would be up before they reached Canadian shores. Not a problem for a refugee (who wants to surrender to Canadian border officials), but for an armed foreign transnational repression/kidnapping force… they would not get far this way. However they can just take a page from India, who sends covert assassins [when they want to kill Canadian political targets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar). We still find out about it, but after the deed is already done. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/25 "2025-07-19T01:18:53Z")
I think they’ll go with the lowest hanging fruit first, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, before they dig up ancient message board posts. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/26 "2025-07-19T01:27:57Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > You yanks need to grab control of your government back from these fucking fascists. They will not stop. It’s not so easy to resist when you’re consumed with sheer blinding terror for yourself and your family. This is something I would have preferred not to know about myself. To quote that poor impsec spy from _Andor_: “I didn’t know it was going to feel like this.” ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/27 "2025-07-19T23:19:26Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > Well if they took that route the jig would be up before they reached Canadian shores. When I spent a day in White Rock (and saw the white rock) I noted that there didn’t seem to be an border patrol in sight. It was just a sleepy little town that I even gave a thought to moving to. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/28 "2025-07-20T01:10:47Z")
Years ago, I posted here on SDMB asking for someone to use information on the Board to come up with my real identity. Before long, someone DM’ed me with my correct name, current address, a former address or two, relevant phone numbers, and (IIRC), my then-current employer. The info is out there. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168/29 "2025-07-20T11:13:02Z")
You made me look up the white rock. They paint it white every year, but it was originally bright white on account of the diet of the sea birds that shit on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168.md?page=1)