Civil libertarians have sounded alarms over Donald Trump’s calls for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and restrictions on Muslims entering the country. But as some Big Law partners have found, a vocal segment of America is willing to go further.

Last week William Lee, a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and one of the country’s top intellectual property litigators, recounted how he’d been told to “go back to your own country” by a man in his hometown outside Boston this past summer.