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American-born woman gets letter from Homeland Security telling her to leave the country [1]
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Date: 2025-04-17
While most of us have been focused on the outrageous, illegal, and un-American treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, another horror is playing out under the radar. American citizens have been erroneously getting emails from the Department of Homeland Security telling them to pack up and leave the country. The latest to get such a letter is Lisa Anderson, a doctor in Cromwell, Connecticut, south of Hartford. She was stunned to get this email because she was born and raised in the United States.
A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from federal immigration authorities demanding that she leave the country immediately. Lisa Anderson, a physician from Cromwell, Connecticut, told NBC Connecticut on Wednesday that she recently received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security telling her, “It is time for you to leave the United States." Immigration authorities have been pushing noncitizens to leave of their own volition , or “self-deport,” as the number of deportations remains at similar levels to last year. But Anderson, 58, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.
Watch more coverage from WVIT (NBC Connecticut), the NBC affiliate for all of Connecticut outside Fairfield County, here.
When Anderson opened this email last week, she initially thought it was spam. But it was very real. She told WVIT’s Jeremy Chen that she has no idea how this happened to her and has never come within an area code of immigration issues. She now carries her passport on her at all times and is seeking aid from an immigration lawyer.
This comes on the heels of Boston immigration lawyer Nicole Micheroni getting a similar email even though she too is a citizen. Micheroni says no one had followed up with her as of Tuesday.
A DHS spokesperson told NBC News that when an alien provides “non-personal email — such as an American citizen contact,” it’s possible for American citizens to get these emails. These are reportedly being reviewed “on a case-by-case basis.” This leads me to suspect they’re being sent via AI—and the people who would be in place to keep erroneous emails from being sent were told to hit the bricks by DOGE.
A lot of people have a lot of explaining to do, in short order. Possibly as far up as border czar Tom Homan and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. This is a never event.
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