Last week, the Department of Homeland Security sent Nicole Micheroni an email stating it was “exercising its discretion to terminate [her] parole”, and telling her “[i]t is time for you to leave the United States…Do not attempt to remain in the United States – the federal government will find you.”. There was just one problem.1 Micheroni is an American citizen, born in Massachusetts.
Per her LinkedIn profile, Micheroni is an “immigration attorney representing asylum seekers, families, artists, and small businesses in complex immigration matters”. Even if we follow Hanlon’s Razor and attribute this error not to malice but to stupidity, it remains horrifying that the government of Donald Trump is so incompetent that it’s telling US citizens to self-deport.
Footnotes:
There are actually myriad problems, including using email to deliver such a message, as well as the inaccurate contents of the message even for those who are not citizens. ↩︎
