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It is a regular day in one of the United States\u2019s largest cities. People wearing masks are driving around in unmarked cars, raiding and picking up people off the street\u2014kidnapping them. The people they\u2019re targeting are just regular people: someone coming home from work, teaching at a school, going to a restaurant. These raids are becoming normal in the city. These masked people say they want to put things back the way they were before\u2014where everyone speaks English, knows the customs, follows the law and looks like \u201ctrue Americans\u201d. They spray people with pepper spray if you resist<\/span><\/p>\n

This may sound dystopian, but it\u2019s the current state of America. Since his inauguration-day <\/span>pledge<\/span><\/a> to \u201cprotect\u2026 the American people from invasion,\u201d Donald Trump and his administration have sent <\/span>hundreds of men<\/span><\/a> to an El Salvadoran megaprison, signed agreements to deport people of varying nationalities to <\/span>Uganda, Eusatini, South Sudan and Rwanda<\/span><\/a>, countries these people have no connection to, and passed a <\/span>bill<\/span><\/a> which gives $130 billion of federal funding to hire ICE agents, build detention centers, and fund the border patrol. The U.S. government has <\/span>increased ICE arrests by 25%<\/span><\/a> and is <\/span>increasing detention<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this blog, we look at the narrative accompanying these actions by studying the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) posts on X (@dhsgov) and analyzing the content in contrast with previous U.S. administrations. While its <\/span>actions<\/span><\/i> have already caused harm and spread fear among both migrants and U.S. citizens, the Trump administration\u2019s <\/span>discourse<\/span><\/i> also causes ripple effects in society and the region that demonizes migrant and refugee people, especially from the Global South, and leaves them unprotected. This anti-immigrant narrative of the DHS, although worse during this administration, fits into the same broader framework of racism and discrimination that U.S. governments have used throughout history to promote fascist policies against other groups, particularly African Americans and Native Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s narrative: dehumanizing \u201cthe enemy\u201d<\/b><\/h2>\n

The current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses the words \u201cillegal,\u201d \u201ccriminal,\u201d and \u201calien\u201d around 12 times more in its posts on X than the previous Trump administration and ~105 times more than the Biden administration, which never used the word \u201calien\u201d in the posts we were able to scrape. A glance at three word clouds showing the most commonly used words from a sample of the DHS posts under Trump\u2019s 2017-2020 administration, Biden\u2019s administration (2020-2024), and Trump\u2019s 2025 administration exemplifies this radicalization of language:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Word Cloud of 938 Posts from Nov. 2017 – Nov. 2020 First Trump Administration\u2019s DHS X Account.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Word Cloud of 2,506 Posts from Nov. 2021-Nov. 2024 Biden Administration DHS X Account.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Word Cloud of 1,588 Posts from Jan 20-July 28, 2025 Trump Administration\u2019s DHS X Account.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Immigrants as \u201ccriminals\u201d and objects<\/h2>\n

While words like \u201calien\u201d\u2014which is a relic from the British imperial legal system\u2014are necessarily dehumanizing (now \u201calien\u201d signifies \u201cextraterrestrial\u201d more than \u201cforeigner\u201d), other descriptors such as \u201cillegal\u201d (as a noun) and \u201ccriminal\u201d work to normalize associative biases between immigrants and crime. The association of immigrants and crime furthers misinformation, considering that <\/span>two centuries of data confirms that immigrants consistently commit fewer crimes than US-born citizens<\/span><\/a>. Amidst the Trumpian erosion of due process, this association is also a dangerous attempt at legitimizing the administration\u2019s kidnapping of authorized residents and arrests of innocent Latinos.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the Trump administration is doing more to promote this association than simply changing their vocabulary. Unlike posts from previous administrations, many current @dhsgov posts are images of \u201ccriminals\u201d who have been deported with descriptions of their crimes (e.g. over 30+ of these posts in the past two weeks). These pictures are almost entirely representative of Latinos, Asians and Africans who are portrayed as \u201c<\/span>pedophiles<\/span><\/a>,\u201d <\/span>drug traffickers<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>other criminals<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet beyond misinformation, these tweets\u2014coupled with <\/span>AI images<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>memes<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>short-form viral content<\/span><\/a>\u2014have an air of nonchalance which seems to gamify immigration crackdowns and treat deportees not as humans but as objects. Not only is the word \u201calien\u201d used <\/span>redundantly<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>intentionally<\/span><\/a> to describe non-citizens, but adjectives like <\/span>\u201cgrumpy\u201d and \u201clittle\u201d<\/span><\/a> are demeaning. In an administration where the head of ICE says that deportation should be like \u201c<\/span>Amazon Prime for human beings<\/span><\/a>,\u201d posts that not only normalize but cheerfully applaud the degradation and mistreatment of non-citizens (and some citizens, too) only serve to legitimize and encourage the growing violence being used against immigrants and people of color in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Racialized and \u201cidealized\u201d homeland<\/h2>\n

The DHS\u2019s twitter account has also begun a series of posts showing <\/span>old paintings<\/span><\/a> of the American frontier, calling it a \u201c<\/span>homeland<\/span><\/a>\u201d to be proud and <\/span>protective<\/span><\/a> of. John Gast\u2019s <\/span>American Progress<\/span><\/i> was the subject of one of these posts, which subtitled the painting\u2019s controversial depiction of Native Americans fleeing white settlers with a call for a return to \u201c<\/span>Homeland Heritage<\/span><\/a>.\u201d Posts like these are not only intentionally ignorant of the genocidal history of the United States, but they also serve to promote white nationalism and social conformity by implying that immigrants and people of color do not belong to an idealized moral vision of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

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An image from an X post<\/a> by the United States Department of Homeland Security on July 23, 2025 that\u2019s caption reads: \u201cA Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

In fact, <\/span>racialized images<\/span><\/a> of the \u201cAmerican way of life\u201d coupled with propaganda and images of deported people of color only serve as an expansion of modern racism, which since the civil rights era has \u201cemphasized\u2026 that blacks were habitual violators of \u2018cherished American values,\u2019 especially the American work ethic\u201d and has since returned in the form of anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) efforts and moves to cut social welfare. On the DHS\u2019 twitter, images of pastoral America only serve to push immigrants of color out of this idealized and racial moral framework.<\/span><\/p>\n

How does this discourse further an authoritarian agenda?<\/h2>\n

In Dejusticia\u2019s recent publication on <\/span>The Intersection of Migration with Authoritarian and Illiberal Tendencies<\/span><\/a>, we outline a few of the ways that governments address migration in an authoritarian or illiberal way. For instance, instrumentalizing migrants to promote nationalism or as scapegoats for the country\u2019s problems; making migration an issue of national security; and portraying migrants as criminals and threats. These practices tend to negatively impact the inclusion, protection, and humane treatment of migrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The authoritarian implication of the Trump administration\u2019s style of messaging is twofold. It serves to instrumentalize migrants to promote nationalism and further the government\u2019s political agenda. As seen in the examples of idealized and racialized images of homeland, the posts imply that immigrants do not belong in an ideal America. Misinformation is also used in authoritarian settings to \u201c<\/span>reframe violence as protection<\/span><\/a>.\u201d In this case, the U.S. government is further painting migration as an issue that must be governed through a security and military lens. This can be seen in DHS posts that paint all immigrants as \u201caliens\u201d and \u201ccriminals\u201d and which claim to be \u201c<\/span>saving lives<\/span><\/a>\u201d through military deployment to detain and deport people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond this, the Trump administration\u2019s narrative normalizes violence against political enemies, including migrants, reframes violence as protection, and denies the legitimacy of the political opposition (for example, by gamifying and trivializing immigration and using memes).<\/span><\/p>\n

Countering the narrative as a political strategy<\/h2>\n

Alongside its policy and actions that deny rights, the Trump administration\u2019s propaganda must not be overlooked. It was V\u00e1clav Havel, one of the liberators of Czechoslovakia from the Soviet Union, who noted that in an authoritarian regime, slogans can come to form a \u201c<\/span>panorama of everyday life<\/span><\/a>.\u201d In a world where the Trump administration\u2019s messaging becomes normalized and not scrutinized, we too risk becoming numb to the violence, ethnonationalism, and dehumanization that is forming the backbone of an increasingly authoritarian political regime in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Calling out and countering this narrative is essential to curb not only the Trump administration\u2019s form of migration control, but also deter people from believing its propaganda and other countries from following its lead. It\u2019s essential to clarify the facts related to crime and point to the benefits of migrants for a country\u2019s political, social and economic wellbeing. Humanizing people who migrate as just that\u2014people\u2014with real lives, family, feelings, dreams, is necessary for a thriving society that protects <\/span>everyone<\/span><\/i> and their rights and not just a few.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And as leaders like Trump instrumentalize migrants in order to shine a disingenuous light on history and the foundations of the country, we must call it out as false, nationalistic propaganda used to exclude. We must also counter the narrative to avoid further democratic backsliding and the removal of rights for even more people. Instead of a normal day with masked actors kidnapping people off of the street, our hope is that, on a normal day in the US, you can go to work, school, a restaurant or your home knowing that you are safe and will not be hurt or taken away from your loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This anti-immigrant narrative fits into the same broader framework of racism and discrimination that U.S. governments have used throughout history to promote fascist policies against other groups, particularly African Americans and Native Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4491],"tags":[4447,7773,6765,7639,2085],"class_list":["post-95192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home_internacional-en","tag-donald-trump","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-policies","tag-united-states-en","subcategory-blog-post","subcategory-highlight","medium-global-rights-blog-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog","post-scope-international-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow the U.S.\u2019s Narrative Hurts Immigrants - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta 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