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Immigration Hotline Flooded With Prank Calls About Space Aliens

Immigration Hotline Flooded With Prank Calls About Space Aliens
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April 30th, 2017 – During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump surrogates urged people to take then-candidate Donald Trump “seriously” but not “literally.” Their messaging may need to change after people jokingly took the now-president extremely literally when he asked them to call the VOICE hotline if they’ve been victims of crimes at the hands of illegal aliens. The problem: they announced this initiative on National Alien Day. The other problem: people troll hard.

Twitter began sharing the hotline number and encouraged users to call in and share their encounters with aliens of the extraterrestrial variety.

Alexander McCoy is a veteran of the Marines and spoke to BuzzFeed News about his civic participation in the administration’s new initiative. He said he called Wednesday afternoon and waited about 20 minutes before telling an operator he had been abducted by a UFO. The vet said it took the person on the other end of the line a little while to get the joke and then, after a heavy sigh, the operator told him he should wait for the DHS to investigate the report. Click. “I plan to call again tomorrow,” McCoy told BuzzFeed.

“I think it’s powerful to see the response there’s been,” he added. “I think there are a lot of people who have been searching for something they can do to speak out, and I’m glad that so many people are showing solidarity with the immigrant community.”

The deluge of creative calls continued throughout the week as people decided to report all kinds of encounters. There was Melania victimizing tax paying citizens, a “Most Wanted” list that includes Superman and E.T., Big Foot terrorizing the U.S./Canada border, and even an orange colored alien spotted at a famous D.C. address.

VOICE, Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement, was announced back in January when President Trump signed an Executive Order on immigration. ICE officials stated that the VOICE hotline would employ 21 community relations officers and 27 specialists in victim assistance. No budget was provided for the office, but officials claimed it would be funded with existing resources.

Critics of the office worry that this will only unfairly target a certain group of people (who are statistically less likely to commit crimes than American citizens) and further raise the number of hate crimes.

ICE officials, however, don’t approve of the methods being used to voice opposition to the initiative. They spoke to BuzzFeed News and suggested the prank calls have hampered the intended purpose of the service.

“There are certainly more constructive ways to make one’s opinions heard than to prevent legitimate victims of crime from receiving the information and resources they seek because the lines are tied up by hoax callers,” an ICE spokesperson said.

He added that they may adjust resources if the hoax calls continue to dominate. Current “alien voice hotline” searches on Twitter seem to suggest that the calls are still rolling in.

Do you think the space alien calls to VOICE cross a line? Or is this a clever way to resist an agenda you disagree with? Funny or Offensive? Vote and comment below.

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16 thoughts on “Immigration Hotline Flooded With Prank Calls About Space Aliens

  1. My good buddy, who’s an immigrant and supports Trump to fullest, would love to find out how to become involved in the deportation of illegals.
    I know it’s a long shot, but if there’s anyway possible to reach whoever could be of assistance of such matter, his address is

    4326 Cordova Ln.
    APT C6
    N Little Rock, AR
    72116

    His name is
    Miguel Carlos Rodriguez Garcia.

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