A new report has highlighted a growing number of Americans, and Californians in particular, who are planning to move abroad because they are “fed up” with the divisiveness of American politics.

The Los Angeles Times spoke with global migration experts who have documented an increase in the number of Americans looking to move out of the country since 2020, many of them California residents.

This number of requests election year it has already surpassed last year, global firm Henley & Partners said. The consulting firm helps clients obtain residency and citizenship in other countries and said about 80 percent of their U.S. clients want to leave the country because of political issues.

“They want an escape option,” Basil Mohr Elzeki, who heads North American operations for Henley & Partners, told the LA Times. “Now with the election, people have opinions on both ends and they’re worried.”

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Jen Barnett, the founder of Expatsi, another company that helps US citizens who want to move abroad, said her website traffic increased 900 percent after the first presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump. She said traffic picked up again in the final weeks of the 2024 race.

Barnett and her husband moved to Mexico earlier this year after spending years looking for a place to live outside the US after Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination.

“Just the fact that he could be nominated to me meant that something was irreparably broken and it wasn’t something we could get back,” she told the Times.

Mykel Dicus, 54, of Hayward, California, said in the report that he is looking to move to Spain in the next three years because he feels safer there and fears another Trump presidency.

“If a regime like MAGA should win this election, I’m very scared,” Dicus said. “I just feel it’s time to enjoy a life that’s free of all American worries.”

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It’s not just liberals who are looking to flee the country, according to experts in the report.

“Anecdotally, I’ve heard more and more people talking about not just a Trump administration, but division in the country,” Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, a migration researcher at the University of Kent in Brussels, told the Times .

Another migration expert, Marco Permunian, founder of Italian Citizenship Assistance, said his company saw a surge of Americans seeking to live abroad after the 2016 election, but that number continued to rise during the Biden administration.

“I have come to the conclusion that there is a feeling of fear in general, and that affects people on both sides of the political spectrum,” Permunian told the newspaper.

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