United States citizen Lisa Anderson, a doctor in Connecticut, has revealed she was sent an email by the Department of Homeland Security telling her, “It is time for you to leave the United States.” Anderson, 58, who was born in Pennsylvania, told NBC Connecticut that she is now carrying her passport around at all times and hiring an immigration attorney. “It does make me concerned there are a lot more people out there like me who probably also thought this was spam, who probably didn’t realize, ‘I have a problem,’” she said. Anderson isn’t the only U.S. citizen sent an email saying they have to leave. Days earlier, Boston immigration attorney Nicole Micheroni received the same email from the DHS giving her only a week to leave the country. DHS officials told NBC that the department has been issuing notices to undocumented citizens, and “if a non-personal email, such as an American citizen contact, was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent to unintended recipients.”
