Email to Massachusetts lawyer warned her to ‘depart the US immediately’ even though removing US citizens is illegal
A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen is speaking out after she received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country.
Nicole Micheroni described receiving an email on 11 April – and that its heading was “notice of termination of parole”.
“It is time for you to leave the United States,” the email read. “If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States.”
Micheroni told NBC Boston: “At first I thought it was for a client, but I looked really closely and the only name on the email was mine.
Deep cultural xenophobia leads to dehuminization
The word literally means “not from here.” In the bible, Jesus tells us to be kind to the alien among us, and he wasn’t talking about men from Mars.
But it’s 100% intended for making people think of scary monsters from other planets.
It’s a deliberate dehumanization tactic as old as organized xenophobia itself.