People Are Trolling Trump’s Illegal Alien Hotline With Calls About UFOs
The truth is out there.
One of the main features of Donald Trump’s political career has been his scapegoating of immigrants. During the election campaign, he infamously described people coming from Mexico as “rapists”, and since assuming the presidency has authorised the Department of Homeland Security to publish “a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens.”
In the same vein, the government recently launched the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office (VOICE) hotline, through which members of the public can report crimes committed by foreigners. “Until today, those victimised at the hands of illegal aliens have had no point of contact in our federal government dedicated to this issue,” said Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.
Of course, as with just about everything else the Trump administration has attempted so far, the whole thing quickly descended into a farce, with trolls calling up the hotline en masse to report a very different type of illegal alien.
Wouldn't it be a shame if millions of people called this hotline to report their encounters with aliens of the UFO-variety. https://t.co/Cl048Gihnk
— Alexander McCoy (@AlexanderMcCoy4) April 26, 2017
In case you want to share your X-Files fan fiction with DHS…
1-855-48-VOICE https://t.co/o0LUR6GCCS
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 27, 2017
If any of you need to report space aliens to our government, please call their hotline: 1-855-48-VOICE. Here are some of their Most Wanted: pic.twitter.com/nWnVYdDdpG
— Steven Santos (@stevensantos) April 27, 2017
855-48-VOICE The illegal alien crime reporting line, just called to report cow abductions by flying saucers. They hung up on me. #AlienDay
— Libby (@ICantEvenToday) April 27, 2017
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson told Buzzfeed that the hotline has been “tied up by hoax callers” and chastised pranksters for preventing “legitimate victims of crime from receiving the information and resources they seek.”
A number of callers, meanwhile, have reportedly been greeted with long hold times and sceptical operators. I can’t imagine why.