White House launched "Aliens.gov" ICE portal urging public to report "suspicious aliens"

On May 28, 2026, the White House launched Aliens.gov, a space- and UFO-themed immigration enforcement website that recasts undocumented immigrants as literal "aliens." The site opens with a Star Wars-style text crawl claiming the government has "kept a closely guarded secret" for 60 years about "aliens... walking among us," before directing visitors to an interactive heat map built on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest data. Users can search by city or state to see detainees' countries of origin, alleged criminal charges, and suspected gang affiliations, and the site links directly to an ICE tip form the White House labels a tool for reporting "suspicious aliens." A running counter on the page displays more than 3.1 million "encounters," though neither the White House nor DHS specified the time period the figure covers; reporting noted the number aligns with total CBP encounters recorded across Trump's first term (fiscal years 2017-2020), not a current tally.

A White House official told Fox News Digital the site was "a first-of-its-kind effort to draw eyeballs to the fact that the previous administration's porous border" put Americans "at risk." The launch drew public criticism, including from Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, who wrote on social media that he was "still looking for intelligent life in the White House."