The White House video featuring a flying saucer and border fence quickly sparked outrage online.

The White House launched aliens.gov, a space-themed site with live illegal immigrant arrest data, ICE heat maps and a tip line to report aliens.

The site compares undocumented immigrants to extraterrestrials, refers to people as "it," and says "they do not belong here."

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language moves an audience from watching to acting.

White House launches ‘alien’ website to brag about the arrest of migrants - ‘Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives,’ the site state

The White House on Thursday launched a UFO-themed immigration enforcement website that initially appeared to focus on aliens.

The Trump Administration has released a new space-themed website with a UFO-style language website to track immigration encounters and arrests of undocumented residents.

The White House is mocking the idea of the U.S. retaining secrets involving alien encounters by launching a space-themed website that touts the arrests of immigrants unauthorized to live in the U.S. The website,

The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.

The website says Trump was the first U.S. president to "call out the real danger aliens pose to every American family."

M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They are the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which won the National Book Award in 2017.