White House · U.S. · Donald Trump · Wired
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
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A space-themed White House website that mocks immigrants and compares them to extraterrestrials claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested almost half a million people in nearly 12,000 cities and towns in the United States.
Key facts
- A space-themed White House website that mocks immigrants and compares them to extraterrestrials claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested almost half a million people in nearly 12,000
- In October, ProPublica reported that immigration agents have held or detained more than 170 US citizens
- Provided post-publication, the White House said aliens.gov “pulls data directly from DHS, which initially included a handful of non-immigration HSI arrests,” adding that “this has been updated
- The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that ICE is going after the “worst of the worst,” but that framing has collapsed under the weight of ICE’s own data, pried loose by a range
Summary
The White House unveiled the website, Aliens.gov, on Thursday after teasing the launch on X with a 10-second video captioned “They walk among us,” leading many users to suspect an announcement about UFOs—the subject of an ongoing Trump administration disclosure effort that produced two releases of declassified files earlier in May. The site includes information about arrestees’ alleged criminal offenses for each location. In more than one-fifth of the locations the site flags as the site of an arrest, no criminal charges are recorded. Provided post-publication, the White House said aliens.gov “pulls data directly from DHS, which initially included a handful of non-immigration HSI arrests,” adding that “this has been updated.” HSI, or Homeland Security Investigations, is a part of ICE.