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Trump’s newly unveiled anti-immigrant hotline bombarded with reports of space aliens

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ollowing President Trump’s executive order in January, the Department of Homeland Security rolled out a new office to help protect the victims of crime from illegal immigrants on Wednesday. In the latest of Trump’s methods to continue to crackdown on illegal immigration in the U.S., the White House also launched a new hotline in which victims or witnesses could easily report criminal incidents. But organized online under the #AlienDay hashtag, immigrants’ rights activists claimed to have quickly overwhelmed Trump’s hotline with complaints of crimes committed by space aliens.

Surrounded by the families of victims of crime committed by undocumented immigrants, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office, also known as VOICE.

“All crime is terrible, but these victims as represented here are unique — and too often ignored,” Kelly said. “They are casualties of crimes that should never have taken place — because the people who victimized them often times should never have been in the country,” CNN reported:

The office will also cover cover victims of any crime with an immigration nexus, officials said. That would cover any potentially removable individual, which include legal permanent residents and visa holders who commit crimes.
The executive order, signed in January, also called for the office to issue reports once a quarter “studying the effects of the victimization by criminal aliens present in the United States.”
“Until today, those victimized at the hands of illegal aliens have had no point of contact in our federal government dedicated to this issue and to them. Families would call and would send letters all over Washington hoping that someone in some agency would respond,” Kelly said, according to CNN.
The White House’s newly launched hotline in which victims or witnesses could easily report criminal incidents has a mission statement that reads, “With honor and integrity, we will support victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens through access to information and resources.”
But critics like Common Defense Executive Director Pam Campos argue that Trump’s new initiative is incredibly dangerous.

“This office is a depraved and dangerous propaganda vehicle that exploits tragedy to fuel hate and division,” Campos said in a statement. “Our commitment of service has no room for tolerating a xenophobic registry, which serves no purpose in helping victims of crime, and only exists to provide fodder for racism.”

Trump continues to hype up an issue that isn’t exactly backed up with much data. A study by the American Immigration Council shows that among men between the ages of 18-49, immigrants are far less likely to engage in criminal activity than those who are native-born.