A Connecticut woman was left stunned after getting an email from the federal government telling her to leave the country, despite the fact she was born a U.S. citizen and has never been in trouble with the law.

“It is time for you to leave the United States.” That’s the first sentence Lisa Anderson saw in an email she got from the Department of Homeland Security on Friday.

“The language seemed pretty threatening to whomever it might actually apply to,” she said.

She thought it was spam at first, but the email was very real after Anderson had it vetted.

What created confusion is that Anderson, who’s a physician and lives in Cromwell, Connecticut, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.

“I really have no idea how my email ended up on that list unless someone else was using that as a false email,” Anderson said.

She now carries her passport on the advice of attorneys and is looking for representation from an immigration attorney, worried about legal repercussions, something Anderson never thought she would ever need.

“I don’t have anything to do with immigration and I never thought that I would have needed the services of an immigration attorney either, and that’s where I find myself,” she said.

This comes just days after two Boston immigration attorneys got the same email from DHS, despite being U.S. citizens themselves.

A senior DHS official said that Customs and Border Protection has been sending these emails to people who do not have lawful status in the U.S., saying:

“If a non-personal email-such as an American citizen contact-was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent to unintended recipients. CBP is monitoring communications and will address any issues on a case-by-case basis.”

“To be clear: If you are an alien, being in the United States is a privilege — not a right,” the officials added. “We are acting in the best interest of the country and enforcing the law accordingly.”

Anderson is warning anyone who may have gotten the emails to take them seriously and get legal help.

“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,’” she said.

Anderson is hoping to connect with the Boston immigration attorneys to hear about their experiences.

Donald Trump’s administration is currently mounting a major crackdown on illegal immigration under “border czar” Tom Homan, with the president promising the biggest mass deportation in American history on the campaign trail last year.

However, its efforts have already run into problems, the latest of which finds the administration refusing to comply with a federal court order instructing it to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Maryland after he was wrongly deported to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador by “administrative error”.