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‘It’s Time for You to Leave’: More immigration lawyers get notices to self-deport

By Debra Cassens Weiss

April 25, 2025, 9:32 am CDT

Immigration lawyers outside Massachusetts are also receiving notices to self-deport, despite their U.S. citizenship.

Among the lawyers receiving notices are Austin, Texas, lawyer Hubert Montoya and Salt Lake City lawyer Carlos Trujillo, according to Fortune, KTVX and the Utah News Dispatch.

“It’s time for you to leave,” the notices said.

Immigration lawyers in Ohio, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania have also reported receiving the notices, according to the Utah News Dispatch.

Montoya told Fortune that he laughed when he received the notice.

“I just thought it was absurd,” he said.

Trujillo told the Utah News Dispatch that he has advocated for the immigrant community, but he refuses to think that it is the reason for the notice.

“It probably was a mistake, and I love this country so much that I think my first inclination is just to believe that and leave it at that,” he said.

The notices are part of a what appears to be a mass email campaign telling immigrants that the immigration parole allowing them to temporarily live in the United States has been revoked, according to the Utah News Dispatch.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is canceling paroles that allowed people who entered the United States using an online appointment app to remain in the country for two years, according to previous reporting by the Associated Press. The Trump administration has suspended use of the app.

The Department of Homeland Security sent notices to email addresses provided by the immigrants, including, in some cases, email addresses of U.S. citizens they listed as contacts, according to a statement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Some of the notices may have been sent to lawyers and other unintended recipients, the agency told Fortune.

The notices being sent are not limited to people who used the appointment app, according to a Customs and Border Protection statement cited by the Utah News Dispatch.

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At least 2 immigration lawyers in Massachusetts received notices to self-deport

By Debra Cassens Weiss

April 15, 2025, 10:32 am CDT

Two immigration lawyers in Massachusetts who are U.S. citizens have said they received notices from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security telling them that it’s time to leave the United States.

Boston immigration lawyer Nicole Micheroni, who was born and raised in Massachusetts, received a notice Friday telling her that she was paroled into the United States for a limited period, and that the government was exercising its discretion to revoke parole.

WCVB-TV and NBC Boston are among the publications with stories.

“Do not attempt to remain in the United States. The federal government will find you,” the letter said. “Please depart the United States immediately.”

Micheroni told WCVB-TV that she is lucky because she has a U.S. passport and a birth certificate.

“Both show I’m a U.S. citizen. I’m not someone who is supposed to leave,” she said.

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

Boston immigration lawyer Carmen Bello said she also received the notice, report WCVB-TV and MassLive.com. She came to the United States from the Dominican Republic but she has been a U.S. citizen since 2007.

Bello said many of her clients have also received the letter.

More than 900,000 people who entered the United States using an online appointment app were generally allowed to remain in the United States for two years under presidential parole authority. The Department of Homeland Security is canceling paroles and telling people to leave the country immediately, the Associated Press reports. The Department of Homeland Security did not say how many notices have been sent.

The Department of Homeland Security sent notices to email addresses provided by the immigrants, including, in some cases, email addresses of U.S. citizens they listed as contacts, according to a statement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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