The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

Maddy Varner Dell Cameron Security May 29, 2026 4:53 PM The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there. Photograph: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story A space-themed White House website that mocks immigrants and compares them to extraterrestrials claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested almost half a million people in nearly 12,000 cities and towns in the United States. In 715 of the locations listed, the site identifies at least one of the people arrested as being born in the United States. In 83 of the locations, every single arrestee is reported to be an American. The White House unveiled the website, Aliens.gov, on Thursday after teasing the launch on X with a 10-second video captioned “They walk among us,” leading many users to suspect an announcement about UFOs—the subject of an ongoing Trump administration disclosure effort that produced two releases of declassified files earlier in May. The site turned out instead to be a piece of political theater aimed at dehumanizing immigrants and casting those the Trump administration has arrested as the secret extraterrestrial visitors of UFO conspiracy lore. The site includes information about arrestees’ alleged criminal offenses for each location. People in 3,159 locations are accused of “Immigration.” In 1,082 locations—including Chicago and Minneapolis —at least one of the crimes supposedly committed by the arrestees is “Public Peace,” a category of convictions that includes unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct. In more than one-fifth of the locations the site flags as the site of an arrest, no criminal charges are recorded. Puerto Rico, a US territory whose residents are American citizens,