A United States citizen was mistakenly looped into a Department of Homeland Security email that ordered her to self-deport from the U.S. “immediately.”
Nicole Micheroni, an immigration attorney and partner at the Massachusetts firm Cameron Micheroni & Silvia, was stunned by the official email Friday morning and initially believed it was intended for one of her clients.
“It took me a couple of minutes to realize it was sent to me instead of someone I represent,” Micheroni told the Boston Globe.
The notification was written simply in the subject line as “Notification of Termination of Parole” and did not state a client name or case number.
It has now materialized that the message was sent by mistake, the DHS confirmed.
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The memo was genuine and is part of the fresh crackdown ordered by President Donald Trump to remove thousands of undocumented immigrants.
The measures that inadvertently targeted Micheroni are a reaction to the Biden-era reconciliation bill that granted nearly 7 million undocumented people the right to work and live temporarily in the U.S., according to Pew Research.
“DHS is terminating your parole,” the body of the email read.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University who entered the USA on an F-1 student visa in 2018, was controversially detained by DHS agents on a street in Massachusetts last month (AP)
The message continued, “Do not attempt to remain in the United States—the federal government will find you.”
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Micheroni, who has practiced immigration law for 12 years, told The Globe she had never before seen immigration parole terminated by email.
Last year, Micheroni and her firm helped Francisco Rodriguez Guardado, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology janitor originally from El Salvador, avoid deportation to his homeland, “where he faced repeated threats to his life from organized criminal elements.”
Guardado was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in Boston in 2017 “with the intent of immediately returning him to El Salvador despite the threats to his life.”
Meanwhile, Micheroni said that Friday’s email was not something that alarmed her personally.
Rather, she was now concerned for other immigrants who were next in line to be targeted by ICE officials.
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“It’s meant to be an intimidation tactic to get people to leave the country,” Micheroni said.
The White House has recently intensified its sharing of images and videos capturing detainees being transferred to a high-security mega prison in El Salvador (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
“In some ways, I don’t think they really care who they reach, as long as the message is being received.”
In March, over 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans had their temporary legal status revoked by the Trump administration — meaning that they could now be in line for deportations this month.
“It is terrifying for people to get a letter like this,” Jeff Thielman, president of the International Institute of New England, a humanitarian relief service for immigrants in Massachusetts, told The Globe.
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“They followed all the rules, did everything they were supposed to do, reported whereabouts and location to the government, and now they’re getting punished for it,” he added.
Sarah Sherman-Stokes, an associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic at Boston University School of Law, told The Globe that DHS appears to be clamping down on asylum seekers who used the CPB One app.
A senior DHS official said the mistake could have been caused by an asylum seeker who had included the email address in their contact information.
“[Customs and Border Protection] is monitoring communications and will address any issues on a case-by-case basis,” the DHS statement to The Globe said.
The Independent contacted DHS and Nicole Micheroni for comment.
Happy Tuesday! While today started off dry, we’re already looking at snow out there across the area. While this event will primarily stay as rain on the Cape and islands, it will be an icy mix of snow, ice and rain for the rest of us.
The rain/snow line will continue to advance from the south to the north as the evening progresses. Before the changeover, there will be a quick coating to 2 inches for most of our area.
The threshold between the snow and rain will feature sleet and freezing rain, leading to that icing.
For the rest of the night, there will primarily be rain with continued pockets of freezing rain, leading to increasing spotty ice accretion. Be extremely careful on roads, especially since switching between rain and freezing rain can wash off any road salt.
The rain and freezing rain will exit by 6 a.m. Wednesday, but temperatures will still be close to freezing during the morning commute, so watch out for some spotty black ice.
The rest of Wednesday will be really nice! Highs will warm up to the mid 50s with the help of ample sun.
Thursday we start off in the mid 20s and top off in the mid 40s. We’ll be partly sunny with another chance for some wintry weather Thursday night. This primarily looks like some rain and freezing rain, rather than the triple threat with snow too. We’ll keep an eye on that for you.
That will continue into Friday morning. The rest of Friday: cloudy with a chance for a spot shower and highs cooler again in the upper 30s. Saturday will be dry, breezy and cloudy but gorgeous near 50 degrees! There’s a chance for some rain showers Saturday night. Don’t forget to set your clocks forward an hour before you to go bed!
Sunday we start the day mild in the 40s and make it all the way into the upper 50s with more sun. Monday and Tuesday both look bright and in the 60s! Stay tuned.
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With a widening conflict in the Middle East after the American and Israeli attack on Iran Saturday, global markets are bracing for a shakeup in the energy supply chain.
So, here at home, what can consumers expect at the gas pump?
An increase in oil prices is almost always followed by an increase in gas prices. And the oil market has already reacted to the war. NBC News reported on Sunday that U.S. crude oil initially spiked more than 10%, while Brent, the international oil benchmark, rose as much as 13%.
Early Monday morning, reports were coming in of black smoke rising from the U.S. embassy in Kuwait City.
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While Iran’s oil reserves supply less than an estimated 5% of global production, the main concern is the Strait of Hormuz. This maritime passageway borders Iran at the bottleneck of the Persian Gulf, and more than 20% of the world’s oil passes through. If Iran closes or restricts Hormuz, the oil market could face severe disruptions.
Gas prices rise about 2.5 cents for every dollar increase in crude oil prices. As of Sunday, U.S. crude oil prices had already increased by nearly $5 a barrel.
“I fully expect that by Monday night, you could credibly say that gas prices are being impacted by oil prices having gone up,” GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan told NBC News.
GasBuddy characterizes their expectations for price increases as “incremental” rather than “explosive”. The group said to anticipate a potential 10-15 cent increase over the next couple of weeks.
