3mo ago

DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen — and an immigration attorney

www.nbcboston.com

"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.

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"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.
- 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.
  
  "Accidentally"
- 55% people do be like that
- 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
- 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.
- She's a lawyer she knows her rights.
  If they come for her it will be fully documented and she can actually do something.
  
  She'll be kidnapped and sent to El Salvador before she can do anything. There is no law.
- I mean, realistically what are her options?
  
  Lawsuit.
I am torn between "This kind of amateur-hour bullshit is why they will not succeed. If you're going to be a properly tyrannical government you have to have your paperwork in order and your threats have to be credible threats, not just random bullshit with every email you can find put into 'BCC'" on one hand, and on the other hand "No one says she won't get her door kicked down and whisked away even though she didn't do anything wrong at all, just because she's one of the class of people who's historically been exempt from it. They definitely will start doing that to citizens at some point, it's just up in the air how soon it will start and how much resistance there will be."
- They're doing tyranny by testing the fences. Unlike the raptors in Jurassic Park, though, they have yet to find a spot that's properly electrified.
  
  Deinonychuses*
  
  They never attack the same place twice.
  …… They remember ……..
- Guarantee you that the incompetence is on purpose. It wasn't a genocide, it was a few clerical errors, some bad AI, and a couple of lines of bad code from a junior dev. Just a big ol' whoopsie where everyone but the Nazis died.
  
  They've turned Hanlon's Razor into a sword. Weaponized incompetence to maximize plausible deniability.
  
  Hanlon's razor says just the opposite.
  Sure, they're not worried about making mistakes because nobody's holding them to account. But, these people have proven time and time again that they're not competent.
- the incompetence isn't that they made a "clerical" error. it's that they're acting like they're evil geniuses, and really, they're not. They're like thugs, sticking up a donut shop getting nabbed because they started arguing about whether they should steal the bear claws or the lemon filled.
  The only reason they get away with it is their boy vinny runs the courts.
- Lmao 35% of the country loves this shit, 15% are on the fence whether it's bad or not, and 50% dislike it but a lot of those don't dislike it enough to actually do anything about it.
- Unfortunately, the incompetence doesn't matter when they act on it and no one is willing to hold them accountable.
  Like recently how they admittedly deported someone they weren't allowed to and even the supreme court unanimously ruled against the administration, but the administration just shrugged and ignored it, claiming that the court has no authority over what they consider now to be a sovereign El Savador issue.
  So if they ship off an inconvenient citizen to El Salvador, they claim it's not their problem because it already happened...
- Purposeful incompetence wins.
  My wealthy husband didn’t feel like turning in documentation during our divorce, I certainly didn’t have the resources to stop him.
  That’s how the legal system has been working. Look at fucking Oklahoma. Freedom of Information Act has been optional, our Open Meetings and Records acts have been optional.
  The US’s court system has been being targeted for years. We are fucked.
- The Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima knew they'd never win, so their objective became to kill at least 10 enemy soldiers before they die themselves.
  If you're going to go, take as many with you as possible.
  
  How can you stay armed if you're already dead? Why would thugs execute a death sentence against someone who is already dead? Your metaphors need work.
An accident, or a test?
- As an outsider looking in, everything this regime does is testing the waters to see if they can get away with that, and if so how much further can they push it.
  If someone doesn't actually take real action to stop it soon, it may become unstoppable.
- Lol, they're sending in en masse.
  I'll bet a straight white cisgender man also got it.
  I mean, have you seen their OPSEC? They sent classified materials to some journalist 🤣
- Almost certainly an accident. These guys are completely incompetent.
  But, that doesn't mean they won't use it as an opportunity. If nobody pushes back, they'll just keep stumbling forward.
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.....
- Administration "mistakenly" flags you as dead. FBI does a "stop and frisk": you present your ID. That person is dead, claiming to be them is fraud. You have no citizenship papers, so you can be deported on the accusation of fraud, sans due process. At the destination, you can call for habeas corpus, if relevant in that jurisdiction.
  Don't expect the administration to "facilitate" your return in any meaningful way.
  
  Or you get sent to the concentration camp in el Salvador
- You don't seem to understand how power works.
  
  Legally dead people can commit crimes. They'll try you as a "John Doe"
  Conversely, even if you kill someone who was legally marked as dead, you still murdered someone who cannot be identified, you murdered a "John Doe"
  Just because you don't legally exist, doesn't mean people suddenly can't see you.
  
  Good luck accessing your bank account though
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.
- 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.
- 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).
  
  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".
  
  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.
  
  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.
- #icecreamtruck on RedNote has been pretty good at flagging ICE agents.
- 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.
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.
- Ice / Homeland security is basically the Gestapo now.
  It always has been for literally millions of people.
- Liberals with guns is a good resource.
  Anyone considering arming themselves should be trained.
  As far as civil war goes, we still have our boxes of Liberty and there are four of them. The order is important.
  #Soap Box
  #Ballot Box
  #Jury Box
  #Ammo Box
  
  The result of any form of armed coup will always be decided by the military. You'll have to see how deep the administration can sink its claws there before something happens.
She should hire (trustworthy) security guards willing to kill. Doge Boys will be coming for her, simply because Trump's deranged word is law.
- 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?
  
  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.
- 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."
- Security guards are insanely expensive.
looks like doge already replaced dhs with ai
- Tihi.
As we've seen, it doesn't matter if it's an accident.

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