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Nicole Mitcheroni opened her email on Friday to find a message from the Department of Homeland Security. It said her immigration status was being terminated and she had seven days to leave the U.S.

But Mitcheroni is a U.S. citizen who was born in Newton.

The email came to her inbox, but did not include her name or the name of anyone else. She suspects she got it in error because she is an immigration attorney — but said plenty of people who entered the U.S. legally using a Biden-era program got the same email when the Trump administration really did revoke their status. 

“Their priority is not necessarily getting the right people out here. I think it’s getting more and more clear that it’s hitting certain numbers and trying to get as many people out of the United States as possible,” Mitcheroni told GBH News. “It’s really a dehumanizing process. And they’ve made it very clear that they don’t care who gets caught up in this as long as they’ll pick up whoever they can if they’re removable in any way, shape, or form from the United States.”

Mitcheroni suggested that anyone who gets a similar message contact an immigration lawyer.

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State representative arrested: Cape Cod Rep. Chris Flanagan was arrested Friday. He is accused of stealing $36,000 from his former job, the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Cape Cod.

A federal indictment claims Flanagan used the money for campaign T-shirts and mailers, personal bills, clothing — and hundreds of dollars in payments for psychic services. Flanagan, a Democrat from Dennis, was also accused of sending out a campaign mailer from a non-existent group called “Conservatives for Dennis” to promote his candidacy.

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD. student who was detained last month outside her Somerville apartment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, has for the first time described her detention in Louisiana . She recounts not being given medication to treat four asthma attacks; being kept in a cell made for 14 people with 23 other women without proper hygiene supplies like toilet paper; and having a nurse remove her hijab without her permission, saying “you need to take that thing off your head.”

“The conditions in the facility are very unsanitary, unsafe and inhumane,” she wrote. “There is a mouse in our cell. The boxes they provide for our clothing are very dirty and they don’t give us adequate hygiene supplies.” The company that runs the South Louisiana Processing Center, GEO Group, did not respond to a request for comment.

Massachusetts Congressman Jack Auchincloss called the Trump administration’s tariffs “the largest peacetime tax increase in American history.” Auchincloss expressed concern about how the tariffs will affect people already living paycheck to paycheck, the impacts on those whose retirement accounts have fallen along with the stock market, and what the implications for global relations given the improved ties between European leaders and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Auchincloss also recognized that more voters are unhappy with the Democratic Party, whose favorability rating hit an all-time low last month in an NBC News poll. Many voters said they want to see the party do more to fight President Donald Trump’s administration. “I’m trying to do my part by engaging in really vigorous debate with fellow Democrats about where we go from here, but also being super clear that ultimately, we as a party are going to draw a sharp line in defense of core values,” Auchincloss said.

Pierre Terjanian, currently The Museum of Fine Arts’ chief of curatorial affairs and conservation,  will be the museum’s next CEO and director. He will take the helm in July, after Matthew Teitelbaum retires from the role.

Terjanian has been at the MFA since early 2024, and before that was the curator for arms and armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he was charged with a collection containing items as old as the Stone Age. He is also a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres, an honor given to him by the French government for his cultural contributions.

Advocates push insurers to cover brain injury therapy

Brain injuries caused by strokes, tumors or trauma can leave people with lifelong symptoms. Shaun Grady of Lexington said surgeries to remove a brain tumor the size of his fist in 2008 left him with balance issues, paralysis on one side of his face and a loss of some analytical skills he relied on as a medical device engineer.

“Anything that can be done to help somebody like me or anybody with a brain injury learn how to think better, faster and restore any capability is huge,” he said.

Through a category of treatments called cognitive rehabilitation therapy, people can try to restore some functions and learn workarounds to compensate for things they cannot relearn. It can be very effective — but it’s not accessible to everyone. 

“Currently, there is not a requirement that insurance provide that access to care in the state of Massachusetts,” said Victoria Harding, a speech language pathologist and vice president at NeuroRestorative, a national provider of rehabilitation for people recovering from brain injuries. “What we’re really seeking now is advancements in access to care, so that people can avoid a lifetime of disability by having that opportunity to regain the skills that have been lost.”

For years, bills that would require insurance companies to cover cognitive rehabilitation therapy coverage have failed. Leaders of insurance companies have opposed them, saying requiring them to cover such treatments would drive up costs. A 2016 analysis by the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis found that the added cost to most customers’ premiums would be $1 a year.

But Rep. Kimberly Ferguson, a Holden Republican who worked as a speech pathologist before she got elected, said she hopes this year can be different. She and state Sen. Paul Feeney, a Foxborough Democrat, have reintroduced the bill and expect a hearing this spring.

“I am so hopeful that this is the session that we can finally get this across the finish line. We’ve come close a few times and run out of time or for various reasons, it just didn’t make it,” Ferguson said.

Read Marilyn Schairer’s full reporting here.