Trump’s ‘Illegal Alien’ Hotline Is Getting Exactly What It Asked For

The internet is flooding an anti-immigration hotline with calls about UFOs and Bigfoot

Something the Trump administration thought would be a good idea this week was to launch a special hotline just for people to call in and report crimes committed against them by undocumented immigrants (because generally, in the midst of a crime, we stop everything and ask the perpetrator for proof of his or her immigration status???).

The hotline is part of the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, and it’s problematic for a lot of obvious reasons. First, as stated above, how exactly is one supposed to know whether a criminal is undocumented? Second, people who are victims of crime should probably call the police, not a hotline that exists to field complaints about brown people. It’s racist and it’s fear-mongering, and luckily, the internet understood that and took matters into its own hands, like the internet tends to do.

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