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Re:How to prepare to flee your country? by throwaway657656 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:29PM (#42942871)
Can I ask why are your fleeing ? Are you chronically ill lacking health insurance and going to another country for their nationalized health care ? Or maybe you have unpaid gambling debts and your life is at risk ? Perhaps you are here illegally and need to flee before you are held in an internment camp ? Is there an upcoming bill that targets the marginalized group you are part of ? U.S. Military and don't want to be part of the Gaza/Canada/Greenland/* invasion force ?

Or upon reflection are you fleeing because your general anxiety is high (totally get it) and the flight or fight response is all consuming ? Because there is no way to flee that.

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Re:How to prepare to flee your country? by GeezNuts on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:49PM (#42943047)
>the Gaza/Canada/Greenland/* invasion force

LMAO!

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Re:How to prepare to flee your country? by morkalork on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:57PM (#42943123)
Hey now, don't forget Mexico and Panama on that list!
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Re:How to prepare to flee your country? by Terr_ on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:50PM (#42943507)
Actually, in some ways the Panama thing is more plausible than the others, since this was just ~35 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...

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Re:How to prepare to flee your country? by archagon on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:40AM (#42946650)
It may be wise to plan ahead before, for example:

* Political speech starts getting monitored and targeted for detention/arrest

* Immigration into other countries gets backlogged

* Other countries stop letting Americans in entirely as a sanction

* Border controls become a lot more restrictive

Is any of this actually going to happen in the next few years? Who the fuck knows. But the likelihood just increased substantially.

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Re:How to prepare to flee your country? by jf22 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:25AM (#42962584)
Would any amount of planning offset these risks though?
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Re:How to prepare to flee your country? by archagon on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:37AM (#42964067)
Preparation is a good idea: talking to immigration lawyers, researching immigration requirements in depth, taking any necessary English/skill assessment tests, etc.
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