Dr. Lisa Anderson, 58, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.
Dr. Lisa Anderson, 58, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.
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.
The famous quote about Nazis, "First they came for..." is being realized at intense pacing.
Fuck fascists and their garbage Nazi AI injection into government systems. All Nazis are garbage and the exception to the rule about acceptance and inclusion. GTFO!
The underlying unsaid context: "White American with White Name who never has been outside the country told to self-deport". Yes, WHITE AMERICA it could happen to YOU!
Everybody is assuming that this is the result of this administration's virtuosic incompetence, but it is equally possible that these people have been specifically targeted. The last one was an immigration attorney, so that seemed to indicate they were harrassing someone who was opposing them. I wonder if they have some bizarre reason to target this woman.
What's as bizarre as anything else about this is that they are sending these to people via email. Like she says, most people will just think it's spam. What official US government organization has ever before sent official legal stuff via email? None. Until now.
The idea that if you don't see an email threatening to arrest or deport you, because it was filtered as spam or looks like spam or was sent to an old email you don't even use anymore or any number of things related to email being an unreliable way to contact someone, is scary.
I also read somewhere that some govt agency (don't recall which, I think it was a health agency?) would now be posting all official notices on X instead of on their own official website!!!
Chances are those idiots are just using a shitty LLM to parse through folders of documents and extract names, then templatize them into a form email without any validation. She could have been listed as a physician for some other person and her name showed up on some random medical document and the dumb system grabber her that way.
They're too dumb to even comprehend what they are doing, they're using AI like it's canon all over the place.
If I received a message like this, I would buy a plane ticket to a safe country and would apply for asylum immediately, and I would use the letter as a basis for the asylum application. It seems like a really strong basis for the application.
Time to muddy the waters. Everyone who is an immigrant (legal or illegal) when asked for an email address, find an email address of an executive at a large corporation and use that.
thats why scientists and MDs are the first to flee a dictatorship before shit hits the fan, and people were complaining they should stay and fight. they dint go to school and act like country bumpkins.
I'm wondering what her specialty is, it wouldn't surprise me if it's something the administration wants to ban. Of course, that's pure supposition since it's not listed in the article, but an effective way to ban women's health and affirming care would be to remove those that provide that care.
If a non-personal email — such as an American citizen contact — was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent to unintended recipients,
It does make me concerned there’re a lot more people out there like me who probably also thought this was spam, who probably didn’t realize, ‘I have a problem,’