The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday unveiled its controversial immigrant crime office, complete with a hotline for U.S. citizens to report alleged crimes committed by undocumented aliens—which was promptly overwhelmed with calls about extraterrestrials, UFOs, and First Lady Melania Trump.
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The Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office (VOICE), which was announced in February, has been slammed by critics as a tool to scapegoat and demonize immigrants to serve President Donald Trump’s “nativist” rhetoric. DHS chief John Kelly introduced the office at a press conference Wednesday where he refused to take questions from reporters, stating, “There’s nothing but goodness in what we’re doing here today.”
Opponents disagreed. And they seemed to enjoy trolling the hotline after its introduction, with one man, Marine Corps veteran and journalist Alexander McCoy, telling BuzzFeed that he reported being abducted by a UFO.
“I think it’s powerful to see the response there’s been. I think there are a lot of people who have been searching for something they can do to speak out, and I’m glad that so many people are showing solidarity with the immigrant community,” McCoy said.
Another woman called in to say she had been victimized by “an immigrant living in NYC on my tax dollars.”
“The guy I spoke to kind of cut me off and asked if I was calling about the first lady and I said, ‘how did you guess?’ and he hung up on me,” she told BuzzFeed.
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