The Daily Populous Monday April 14th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by nbcboston.com and submitted by HazyDavey68

When Massachusetts resident Nicole Micheroni received an email on Friday from the federal government telling her to leave the country, she was baffled.

"At first I thought it was for a client, but I looked really closely and the only name on the email was mine," said Micheroni. "So it said my parole status had been terminated and I should leave the country within seven days."

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But the 40-year-old is a U.S. citizen, born in Newton and raised in Sharon.

"Probably, hopefully, sent to me in error," she said. "But it's a little concerning these are going out to U.S. citizens."

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Micheroni is also an immigration attorney, working with many clients facing possible deportation issues, so her name and email are on a lot of paperwork.

"The language in the email is very threatening," she said. "And it looks kind of like a sketchy spam email. It doesn't look like an official government notice, but it is."

A federal judge is weighing whether to stop a move by the Trump administration to terminate parole for more than half a million immigrants in the country, including the families of servicemembers and Ukrainians fleeing the war in Russia.

In a statement, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC10 Boston that Customs and Border Protection is issuing notices terminating parole for individuals who do not have lawful status to remain, and "CBP used the known email addresses of the alien to send notifications. If a non-personal email-such as an American citizen contact-was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent to unintended recipients. CBP is monitoring communications and will address any issues on a case-by-case basis."

"I think it's really scary this is going on," said Micheroni. "I think it says they're not being careful."

Micheroni posted about the email on social media and has received thousands of responses from around the world.

"I think it's a scare tactic," she said. "I think they want people afraid of immigration."

Micheroni says she won't be reaching out to Homeland Security, and figures this is an administrative error.

She hopes nothing more comes of it.

Feisty_Bee9175 on April 13rd, 2025 at 15:46 UTC »

NPR last week interviewed a US attorney who is a US citizen, and he said the Trump administration is targeting US immigration attorneys. He was coming back from vacation and crossed the border checkpoint.That is when border patrol targeted him and detained him, then tried to confiscate his phone. They told him he was on a list for terrorists. He told them he had over ten years of attorney client privilege communications on his phone. He told them absolutely not in confiscating his phone. He said there are other immigration attorneys he personally knows that are also being harrassed by ICE and border patrol. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357455/attorney-detained-by-immigration-authorities

R-Dragon_Thunderzord on April 13rd, 2025 at 15:25 UTC »

This isn’t a mistake it’s a trial balloon

AbrahamKMonroe on April 13rd, 2025 at 15:24 UTC »

> Mistakenly

Yeah, I’m sure it was. No veiled threats here, guys.