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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    12 hours ago

    The point of the pepperball gun being? You know they’ll shoot you dead when they spot it, right?

    Might as well be carrying the real thing instead.

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      5 hours ago

      Fair, but I don’t have a CC permit and this is technically legal for me to carry. If real agents show up, I’m fucked regardless. But if wannabe white supremacists in my area want to play gravy seals, it will do just fine.

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        12 hours ago

        Fair enough but in that case maybe don’t carry a gun at all. Like I said, it’s basically suicidal.

        Regardless of the current, evolving circumstances, law enforcement officers treat any gun as a deadly weapon. So they will shoot first & ask questions later.

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          Come on man, these Gestapo would treat being completely unarmed as a gun, especially if you have tattoos or dress upper end urban street attire as it’s been reported.