Since the US 2024 election and the current federal government’s growing disregard for constitutional rights, responsibilities, and freedoms, whenever I sat at my computer, I faced the twin spectres of ICE detention and eventual deportation. Although I’d been a Permanent Resident of the US since 2003 and have no criminal record, I felt my Canadian citizenship determined my otherness after Trump suggested Canada become the 51st state and many Canadians made clear we were not having it. That I had been living in Vermont’s green mountains legally and at the same address for 23 years made no difference. As with other Canadians, my position became precarious when those of us living and working in the US joined the growing list of this current authoritarian regime’s targets for revenge.