White House Launches Aliens.gov That Labels Undocumented Migrants as 'Aliens'

Overview

• The White House published Aliens.gov to describe people without legal status as “aliens” and to argue that millions have “infiltrated” U.S. communities, using language that many critics call dehumanizing.
• The site features a national interactive map that the administration says shows arrests and encounters in real time and offers state-by-state counts of detentions.
• The government cites roughly three million departures of undocumented migrants, saying two million left voluntarily and more than 900,000 were removed, figures presented as evidence of its enforcement push.
• Design choices on the site borrow sci‑fi and extraterrestrial imagery linked to President Donald Trump’s public interest in the topic, a choice that critics say turns immigration policy into provocative visual propaganda.
• The release is likely to heighten clashes with Democratic states, civil‑rights groups, and legal advocates who have resisted mass enforcement, and it arrives against demographic context showing about 52 million foreign-born residents and roughly 14 million undocumented people in the U.S.