Californians reportedly preparing to flee country pending election results: 'I'm very scared'

A caller study highlighted a increasing fig of Americans, and peculiarly Californians, who are readying to determination overseas due to the fact that they are "fed up" with the divisiveness of U.S. politics.

The Los Angeles Times spoke to planetary migration experts who've documented a spike successful the fig of Americans seeking to determination retired of the state since 2020, with galore of them being California residents. 

The fig of requests this election year has already exceeded past year, planetary steadfast Henley & Partners said. The advisor institution helps clients get residency and citizenship successful different countries and said that astir 80% of their U.S. clients privation to permission the state due to the fact that of governmental issues.

"They privation an enactment to escape," Basil Mohr Elzeki, who leads the North American operations for Henley & Partners told the L.A. Times. "Now with the election, radical person opinions connected some ends, and they’re worried."

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Voters get to formed their ballots successful the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike predetermination connected Election Day astatine the Detroit Police Department, Twelfth Precinct successful Detroit, Michigan, U.S., November 5, 2024.  (REUTERS/Emily Elconin)

Jen Barnett, laminitis of Expatsi, different institution that helps U.S. citizens looking to determination abroad, said her website's postulation spiked 900% aft the archetypal statesmanlike statement betwixt President Biden and erstwhile President Trump. She said that postulation climbed again successful the last weeks of 2024 race.

Barnett and her hubby moved to Mexico earlier this twelvemonth aft spending years looking for determination extracurricular the U.S. to unrecorded pursuing Trump winning the 2016 Republican nomination.

"Just that helium could beryllium nominated to maine meant that thing was irreparably broken, and it wasn’t thing we could get back," she told the Times.

Mykel Dicus, 54, from Hayward, California, said successful the study that he's pursuing moving to Spain successful the adjacent 3 years due to the fact that helium feels safer there, and he's acrophobic of different Trump presidency.

"If a authorities similar MAGA should triumph this election, I’m precise scared," Dicus said. "I conscionable consciousness similar it’s clip to bask a beingness that’s escaped from immoderate American worry."

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Former President Donald Trump rallied successful Raleigh, North Carolina, earlier Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with supporters successful Scranton, Pennsylvania, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Kevin Mohatt)

It's not conscionable liberals looking to fly the country, according to experts successful the report.

"Anecdotally, I’ve heard much and much folks talking not conscionable astir a Trump administration, but astir the divisiveness successful the country," Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, a migration student astatine the University of Kent successful Brussels, told the Times.

Another migration expert, Marco Permunian, laminitis of Italian Citizenship Assistance, said his institution saw a surge of Americans looking to unrecorded overseas aft the 2016 predetermination but that fig continued to turn during the Biden administration. 

"We came to the decision determination is a consciousness of fear successful general, and that affects radical from some sides of the governmental spectrum," Permunian told the paper.

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