“They walk among us.” The White House has thus released this Friday on its X social media account a new website that compares immigrants to aliens and presents a map showing real-time arrests of foreigners. Additionally, it includes a button that directs to a hotline to report these individuals to ICE, the U.S. immigration and customs enforcement agency.
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In the post, created with artificial intelligence, a man walks through a desert area next to a metal wall when he is abducted by a flying saucer that transports him to the other side of the barrier, referencing the deportation policy promoted by the Donald Trump administration. The man is what the Trump Administration wants to identify as an alien, playing with the double meaning of the term “alien” in English, which means extraterrestrial but also foreigner.
They walk among us. https://t.co/7HysdUuNVM pic.twitter.com/PkUHcT7igg
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 28, 2026
On the official White House page, the metaphor becomes even more explicit: “They were not little green men. These aliens are the millions of illegal immigrants who invaded our country under the cover of darkness.” With an aesthetic that simulates revealing a secret hidden for decades, the site states that “the cover-up is over” and concludes with the message: “Deport them all.”
Although it does not reveal any type of declassified confidential document, both the site’s design and texts seek to convey the feeling of a conspiracy maintained “for 60 years.” “The aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods and interacting with us in everyday life. They have shopped at the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and led an apparently normal human life,” the text states.
The visual narrative mimics the scrolling presentation and credits characteristic of the Star Wars saga (La guerra de las galaxias in several Latin American countries and Spain): the paragraphs of text scroll vertically while animated stars fall over the screen background.
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At the bottom of the page, a counter shows the number of people detained, with a figure that increases every second and already exceeds 3.1 million.
The interactive map, titled “Alien Arrest Map Live,” allows users to move the cursor over different regions of the U.S. to see how many arrests were made in each locality and the nationalities of those detained.
The site does not specify the exact period to which the captures correspond, although given the volume of cases, it could be data released by the Department of Homeland Security in a report compiling arrests made between September 2024 and April of this year, according to the Efe agency.
Besides the button to report directly to ICE, the page includes another message: “If you have witnessed an Alien abduction, do not be alarmed. The Alien is in good hands. We will take care of it.” The language used in this phrase is another example of the dehumanization that the Trump administration has decided to adopt in reference to undocumented immigrants. The text immediately says: “We will return it to its place of origin,” using a pronoun that in English is usually employed for objects or animals, but not for people.
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