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.

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 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,

On Thursday, the White House posted several cryptic videos on social media that teased an upcoming announcement connected to an “aliens.gov” web address. The videos, featuring imagery such as crop circles and UFOs, initially seemed to be indicating some announcement or revelation concerning extraterrestrial life.

The White House launched a website teasing new information on extraterrestrials this week, but it actually delivers immigrant arrest data.

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

Viral images falsely depicting President Trump meeting mysterious figures at the White House have sparked alien conspiracy theories. These AI-generated images, shared widely online, were debunked by experts.

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

Was Donald Trump an "X-Files" fan? This new real White House web page makes you wonder. From Yvette Walker:

The White House has launched a bizarre website that says aliens "walk among us", but not everything is as it seems. The extraterrestrial-themed Aliens.gov website, launched by the Trump administration on Thursday, local time, showcases the actions of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).

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