The White House on Thursday rolled out a new "aliens" website that dresses up immigration enforcement in sci-fi styling, complete with a Star Wars-style opening crawl and starry background, reports the Hill. "They walk among us," the site begins, before declaring that, for six decades, the government has hidden the presence of "aliens"—its term for people living in the US without authorization—who "do not belong here." A live counter on the page lists more than 3.1 million "encounters," a figure that tracks with a Homeland Security Republicans' report on immigration encounters during President Trump's first term.
The site also features a US heat map built from Immigration and Customs Enforcement data and lets users search by city and state for arrest totals, detainees' countries of origin, and alleged criminal charges or gang ties. It also links to ICE's online tip form so people can report what it calls "suspicious aliens." The rollout follows the administration's quiet registration of Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, which had fueled speculation about UFO disclosures.
Instead, the site underscores Trump's pledge to step up mass deportations, an effort that has already drawn heavy scrutiny and contributed to a record-length shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security this spring. HuffPost reports on some of the online reaction to the portal, which ranged from assertions that the site is yet another attempted distraction from the Epstein files, to outright outrage. "This is disgraceful! I literally do not have words!!" one commenter wrote on X. "Dehumanizing illegal immigrants and equating them to extraterrestrials is reprehensible."
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