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From /r/NotTheOnion: DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen — and an immigration attorney
Annoyingly, the article doesn't include the full text of the email, but rather has an embeded video showing that the recipient posted images of the text to twitter, but a photo shows part of the email on a phone screen.
Supposing it was intended for a client, that person's parole smay have been terminated without their knowledge - how many contact methods does DHS use? Hopefully, the DHS is being clear about the whose parole is being terminated and the timelines, such that Micheronoi could easily narrow down which of her clients need to check their status, but that's the same DHS who mistook a citizen for someone with temporary, conditional residency - it wasn't addressed to a client, but sent to her email; it was addressed to her, with no mention of a client.
What base rate of such errors should we expect from a normally-functioning DHS, what rate of such errors should be taken as evidence of abnormal incompetence or maliciousness by the Trump II DHS, and why?
I mean, this entirely on the administration that flew in a million illegal immigrants under temporary exemptions while only requiring them to put a name and email in a fucking phone app. What did you expect? They made it deliberately difficult to track these guys down or do anything about them. And women like her got paid to help them.
Everyone involved in the CBP One program needs to be in prison or deported to a prison.
It does sound like that "immigration attorney" committed fraud by just inputting her own details into other illegal immigrant's "parole status" applications, because it got her "clients" to the next screen. She probably assumed nothing could possibly result from it. She may yet be right. These people never suffer any consequences.
If so, why isn't there any indication a client being the intended recipient? Conversely, why didn't she receive multiple notices? (Would a bad actor only do this once?) I'm not ruling it out as a possibility, given the scant available evidence, but I'm leaning towards some DHS form processing error causing an immigration attorney to be mistaken for a parolee, with insufficient error detection.
Edit: Also, if she were a bad actor, why would she publicize evidence of her own crime? If she used her own name for one special client, the publicity is not doing them any favors; if she used her own name multiple times, it would be easy to prove.
Attorney's name/address got entered in the "client information" portion of some form seems like a simple mistake that might not be caught immediately.
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