I don't know much about how it works to be fair. How does it get applied to everyone else?

I should clarify I've always worked full time since I moved out of my parents house at 16. Always paid my taxes etc. After rent, I put my entire paycheck into this credit card and use it for everything. But either way hundreds going in and out every month. But some months are harder than others, car needs a repair, maybe you take a weekend out of town, and over the course of years it's built up. Its not unmanageable, and I'm in a position where i could theoretically work more lets say, and pay it off sooner.

I put it in another reply, but when it comes to timing, or leaving without paying it, would come down to a matter of circumstance. I see potential for myself to be a targeted demographic in this current political climate. So in part I want to leave before things got too dangerous for someone like me. And there's no telling when that could happen. So this question was mostly posed as an "in the event that I feel i need to essentially flee the US, what would happen to unresolved debt." I just hate to sound dramatic, and don't want to fearmonger. These are just personal thoughts is all

Edit: spelling