WA asylum seekers, lawyers receive emails ordering they leave U.S.

Olga Lucia Herrera, community liaison at the Spokane Immigrant Rights Coalition, was told about the letter after someone brought it up to her and didn’t know what to do.

Since then, she has found at least 20 people who have received the same letter.

“They’re panicking. They were already scared, and now they’re more scared,” Herrera said.

The confusion comes as the second Trump administration has taken numerous unprecedented measures to crack down on immigration.

The emailed letters were not addressed to any specific names and started with: “It is time for you to leave the United States.”

Jason Givens, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman, told The Spokesman-Review

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