When Nicole Micheroni received an email from DHS telling her to leave the country, she was baffled. She’s an immigration attorney born in Massachusetts.

“I think it’s really scary this is going on,” said Nicole Micheroni. “I think it says they’re not being careful.”

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.”

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

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    1921·
    3 个月前

    "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."

    I’m surprised she’s being so sedate about this, I’d get it in front of a judge immediately to establish a paper trail.

    It would also be good to find out who else they are doing this to.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      721·
      3 个月前

      Considering they already have accidentally sent somebody to an El Salvador torture prison and are ignoring a court order to even attempt to bring them back… Yeah she should really be raising hell over this.

    • dutchkimble@lemy.lol
      12·
      3 个月前

      Yeah, when I read that bit I thought that’s quite unlike what usually someone who is an expert in this exact field would do

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      3 个月前

      She’s offering them the “benefit of the doubt,” to let them correct their error. Unfortunately, the general response to mistakes is to double down on their stupidity.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      3 个月前

      She’s a lawyer she knows her rights.

      If they come for her it will be fully documented and she can actually do something.

      • P1nkman@lemmy.world
        18·
        3 个月前

        She’ll be kidnapped and sent to El Salvador before she can do anything. There is no law.

        • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          46·
          3 个月前

          That only happens to people who have nobody to speak for them, that’s why immigrants are so vulnerable.

          She’ll have armies of lawyers covering her.

          This is Rosa Parks for white lawyers who want to feel like they’re doing something, good on her.

          • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
            4·
            3 个月前

            Nah, dude. The president has directly attacked law firms that have opposed him with bills of attainder via EOs. The president has directly, flagrantly, and openly flaunted court orders. The DOJ initially said deporting Kilmar was an accident; today, Miller clarified it was not an accident at all. They shouldn’t have been able to put a man in prison indefinitely without due process, but they have. They shouldn’t be able to lie to and ignore the courts, but they are. I am begging you to understand that the rules no longer apply, we are in a dictatorship and nobody is coming to save us. We must save ourselves.

              • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
                6·
                3 个月前

                No. Lawyers are lower case m money. They work for the upper case M money, which is who the Trump administration is bowing to. They aren’t worried about lower case money, especially because the courts have shown themselves to be utterly toothless. I’m telling you, the administration is already chilling lawyers by targeting firms directly with EOs, and it’s working. The lawyers are not going to save us. They’re going to be standing on the sidelines with the judges yelling “but you can’t do that, the rules say so!” As the Trump administration goes ahead and does it. I know because that’s what happening right now.

  • dryfter@lemm.eeEnglish
    86·
    3 个月前

    And there it is. Combine this “accident” with the Death Master List and you have a recipe for “accidentally” ruining people’s lives who are retired or disabled. We know how this administration handles mistakes now as well.

    What does a person who is declared dead but indeed still alive do when this happens and they lose income, housing, and medical insurance? Asking for a very terrified friend…

  • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
    773·
    3 个月前

    i saw someone filming supposed ICE agents on the train the other day. we need networks that identify these people and blast their faces to the public. the public needs to be a vigilante mob. the only way we put this in check is to turn the guns on them instead of us being the hunted.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      32·
      3 个月前

      It’s fucking crazy how one sided the surveillance state is. The old justification is that it is to exonerate the innocent and catch the guilty in truth it is usually to catch whoever the fuck they don’t like and also will delete anything that might remotely incriminate them or release it only after their guys are acquitted as a giant fuck you (look up the murder of Daniel Shaver).

      • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
        24·
        3 个月前

        yeah. we all know it’s bullshit but it’s up to us to change it. the dems aren’t going to solve this. the republicans aren’t going to solve this. a corporation isn’t going to solve this.

        we really need to stop saying “they” and start saying “we”.

      • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 个月前

        We have the technology to make 1984 a reality. And we’re slowly making our way to actually implementing it. Once the apparatus is in place it is immovable.

      • Grappling7155@lemmy.ca
        3·
        3 个月前

        It wasn’t always so one sided. Jane Jacobs wrote about the power and effect of local community surveillance over the streets in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. When we zone for and build mixed use streets with enough density and points of interest to ensure foot traffic at all points in the day from a variety of ordinary people, with a healthy percentage of them being established locals, then it’s much easier for good samaritans to notice when something goes wrong (like a kidnapping attempt) and intervene. Privacy used to be a lot easier to achieve too when you needed it.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      331·
      3 个月前

      There needs to be a crowd-sourced app to track ICE, like Waze with media upload. And a slingshot with velcro-covered AirTags to keep a further eye on them.

      • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
        10·
        3 个月前

        unfortunately, we are at war, and the future of humanity demands that we fight back. there’s no just way to win, but it is self defense at this point.

  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
    651·
    3 个月前

    Idk, that’s a lot of vowels in her last name and we are returning to 1939 fascism. I wish I was joking. Ice / Homeland security is basically the Gestapo now.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    372·
    3 个月前

    She should hire (trustworthy) security guards willing to kill. Doge Boys will be coming for her, simply because Trump’s deranged word is law.

    • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
      25·
      3 个月前

      Because everyday people totally have the money for armed security guards who are willing to shoot Cops for you? Where does one hire these “trustworthy” people?

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
        91·
        3 个月前

        People who want to form Rainbow Panthers, especially persecuted minorities. They just need food on the table, munitions, and some sort of goal. Breaking ICE who assault schoolchildren and other innocents would certainly be a goal.

        Also, the lady is an attorney. She probably has some savings, connections, and a willingness to go pro bono for people who need an public defender against the Trump Regime. The real roadblock is for people to accept that the ‘norms’ are dead, and to act accordingly. Considering we have a rapist of a president who intends to butcher Americans, I don’t think militias against ICE are a stretch.

        • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 个月前

          An attorney is not rich, they make more money than average at around $90-120k a year but not enough to hire 2-4 extra professionals to follow them around plus hazard pay.

          • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
            81·
            3 个月前

            That changes when militias are formed. Mutual aid is about people supporting each other - be it in the courtroom, battlefield, kitchen, or classroom. Neighborhoods filled with ICE Breakers, would mean that this lady and others wouldn’t need more than two guards. An potential victim can call for help, while the guards delay ICE. Just set up checkpoints that inspect suspicious vehicles.

            Seriously. This is a civil war brewing, and ordinary people can become a state unto themselves if they are willing to create their own laws. Trump doesn’t believe in any law but that which emanates from his asshole, so why should anyone obey?

            • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              3 个月前

              Mutual aid works well as an exchange of small favors, goods, and monetary assistance. Your alternator breaks down and you have no money. 10 people chip in to help pay for the part. Someone who knows cars donates their time to install it. That’s how mutual aid works in the real world.

              Something like the Black Panthers existed in a very specific historical circumstance. They existed in a handful of dense black neighborhoods with deep social roots going back generations. It doesn’t really translate to the way most people in the US live, in low density sururban sprawl.

              If ICE knocks on your door, there isn’t going to be time to call for aid. And setting up checkpoints on roads? You’re living in a fantasy world.

              • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
                31·
                3 个月前

                Odds are, you will sound like a British loyalist a century from now, who thought things would never change in their British colony. We live in a “fantasy world”, where a mad king is sending the innocent to die in El Salvador without reason nor justice.

                The only question is at what point people discard the things that they lived by. Common sense, the rules, whom they believed in, and more.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      3 个月前

      Those Doge Pukes should have been gunned down in the first government lobby they tried to storm. At that point, they had all the authority of pirates, and were operating totally illegally. Now they’ve been “authorized.”