An American citizen born and raised in California is unsettled after receiving an e-mail from the US Department of Homeland Security ordering him to leave the country “immediately.”

Aldo Martinez-Gomez received the DHS notice on April 11, threatening “criminal prosecution” and fines if he does not depart within seven days.

Martinez-Gomez works full-time assisting immigrants in court for a non-profit and believes his advocacy work may have placed him on the government’s radar.

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    5 hours ago

    Basically you’re saying, attribute the email to stupidity; attribute the stupidity to malice.

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      I think anybody who wasn’t malicious would be very careful about this process. They would know that a mistake was possible and that they should triple-check everything they were doing. So, it’s more that the stupidity is the evidence for the malice. That, and the fact that there wasn’t a massive apology and attempt to correct the mistake when these news stories started coming out.

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        2 hours ago

        Anybody who wasn’t malicious would be very careful

        well. I mean, no. They could just be stupid.

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      People often forget with Hanlon’s Razor that stupidity is evil, and that evil is not always malicious.