No Stupid Questions

I’d imagine it was like 0% risky.

There’s A big difference between legal immigrants and actual us citizens.

But id probably rather live in the UK if that’s an option

At the moment they're only going after overt political dissidents and brown immigrants. As long as you haven't penned an oped criticizing Trump you should be fine. Though, I would advise buying a burner phone for the trip. Set up a new account and put a bunch of games on it so it doesn't look suspicious.

I think it really depends on how white you are. I'm 192cm tall, born in California, white as fuck with blue eyes, so I think that I'm pretty safe. However, I've cautioned my sister who was born on Java that she really has to take precautions. She's lived here and been naturalized since she was 1 years old, but even so, she's got brown skin, so she's a target for this RACIST AS FUCK government.

Why would you come back?

As a PRC-Born, Naturalized* US Citizen, I do not feel safe entering/exiting the US borders right now. I told my PRC-Citizen father and grandmother (who lives with us) to not do any border crossings.

*technically it's Derivative Citizenship, Green Card holders under the age of 18 automatically become a citizen if one of the parents become a citizen

If I were a cis-gender white person born in the US, I would probably feel okay crossing borders if I don't have tattos and don't have a high-profile anti-trump publicity. I would still wipe any phone before border crossings, load it up photos of my cat, and random nature photos I've taken. Zero political content on the device.

You said you naturalized during Biden's presidency, which means you've been citizen for less than 5 years. During this time period, if the government believes you are a terrorist, or a member of a "communist" or "totalitarian" party, they could revoke your citizenship. So maybe wait till 5 years + 1 day after your naturalization just to be safe.

But consider permanent emigration to UK, in case things get worse in the US (I'm not saying to do it now, but keep in mind the possibility).

Edit: So if you natualize in January 1, 2021, I'd wait till January 3, 2026, to be extra safe.

But remember, this administration is gonna try to find every legal justification they can if they really want to get you.

My advice is if you have citizenship or a visa in another country and you can leave the USA. Run and don't look back. The USA is a place to be escaped from. Consider yourself lucky to have a place to go.

I only have the context of a somewhat informed person in a college financial aid office. It's really the illegal or refugee/asylee population that has to worry right now unless you're here as a permanent resident and have protested against the ethnic cleansing of Gaza (or as the republicans are calling it, "antisemitism") on a billion dollar campus.

They don't have a strategy yet for de-naturalizing naturalized citizens (they are discussing this), but if you're white and not Muslim, you're probably not drawing their attention.

You've still got a British passport? Consider staying out of trouble, I.e. the US.

This risky.

Don’t risk it. Also, try to make some contingency plans in the event they do kick you out.

Tbh I’m born and raised here, and a straight white cisgender male, and I’m laying groundwork to quickly emigrate as a contingency plan.

Edit: apparently they’re now trying to figure out how to “de-naturalize” naturalized citizens, so that’s fun.

Consult the chart

Are you white?

Trump immigration raids snag U.S. citizens, including Native Americans, raising racial profiling fears

Those who are getting caught in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids are being targeted because of their race or skin color, according to witnesses.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-immigration-raids-citizens-profiling-accusations-native-american-rcna189203

That depends what colour your skin is or if you wear any non christian headgear, symbols, etc.

You are now an American citizen, so you should have the rights the rest of us have. You should be fine. They haven't gotten around to threatening to denaturalize people yet. When they do, they will concentrate first on people from countries they don't like, that used old policies they have since rescinded. And they will have to use more due process than they are using on these non-citizens.

The one thing I would be cautious of, though, is the state of your cell phone. They are very thin-skinned when it comes to criticism lately, and may decide to look through your phone's social media to decide if you are insufficiently loyal. They have broad powers to do that when you re-enter the country. As a US citizen they cannot deny you entry, but they can still make your life difficult on entry. And this group doesn't exactly pay attention to laws, do they?

At minimum, you might want to shut down your cell phone before getting off the plane. Explain it by saying it is a long flight, and you wanted to save your battery for arrival. If they confiscate a phone and try to dump all its data, they are more limited if the phone has just rebooted. They would basically need the PIN to do anything. If you want to go further, you can also log out of all of your social media accounts and remove their apps before the flight, so they even if they force you to divulge the PIN they won't find your social media history.

That may all be too paranoid, but we live in stupid times.

update: Blue sky users are apparently receiving threatening letters using the phrase their "parole is terminated" despite being us citizens; I can't confirm anything, but I'm looking into it now.

so far naturalized citizens are not being harassed or detained.

everyone i've heard about being turned away or deported so far has a green card, visa or is in the US illegally.

it's certainly a terrible situation and a slippery slope, but as far as I'm aware naturalized citizens are not facing that treatment yet.

Why would you want to come back? Place is a 2nd world shit hole.