The White House has launched a space-themed website, and it reportedly uses the word “aliens” to refer to undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The launch comes as Donald Trump’s administration continues its aggressive push to crack down on illegal immigration across the country.
White House launches controversial ‘aliens’ website
Donald Trump’s administration launched aliens.gov on Thursday, a website that opens with a Star Wars-style scrolling text crawl set against a backdrop of falling stars — framing undocumented immigrants as a hidden threat living undetected among ordinary Americans.
“They walk among us,” the site declares, describing undocumented immigrants as people who have attended the same schools and shopped in the same stores as Americans before concluding, “With one exception — they do not belong here.” A live counter on the page displays over 3.1 million so-called “encounters.” The figure appears to match a September 2024 Homeland Security Republican report on encounters recorded during Trump’s first term, though the website provides no timeline for the data.
Furthermore, a heat map below the counter draws on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) figures, allowing visitors to search by city or state. Results include total arrests in a given area, the nationalities of those detained, and any alleged criminal charges or gang affiliations on file. The site also links directly to ICE’s online tip form, encouraging the public to report what the White House labels “suspicious aliens.”
The domain registration had already raised eyebrows in March, when Trump’s administration quietly secured both alien.gov and aliens.gov. Many speculated it was tied to Trump’s parallel effort to release government documents related to UFOs, making Thursday’s immigration-focused launch a surprise to some observers.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Customs and Border Protection, has pursued mass deportations as a central plank of Trump’s second-term agenda. Enforcement operations have received widespread legal and public scrutiny and contributed to a record-long agency shutdown this spring.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.
