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White space themed Al-Bayt website, which mocks immigrants and compares them to them Aliens Claims Immigration and customs It arrested nearly half a million people in nearly 12,000 cities and towns in the United States. In 715 of the sites listed, the site identifies at least one of the people arrested as born in the United States. At 83 sites, every detainee is said to be American.
The White House unveiled Aliens.gov on Thursday after teasing its launch on Publishing declassified files Earlier in May. Instead, the site turned out to be a political farce aimed at dehumanizing immigrants and portraying those arrested by the Trump administration as secret extraterrestrial visitors from UFO conspiracy lore.
The site includes information about the alleged criminal offenses of detainees at each site. People in 3,159 locations are charged with “immigration.” In 1082 locations – incl chicago and MinneapolisAt least one of the crimes the detainees are presumed to have committed is “public peace,” a category of convictions that includes unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct.
In more than one-fifth of the locations the site identifies as arrest sites, no criminal charges are filed. Puerto Rico, a US territory whose residents are US citizens, is mapped on the site as a separate jurisdiction; In one row, the website lists Puerto Rico itself among the foreign countries from which the detainees came.
The White House said WIRED’s request for comment did not arrive in its inbox until two hours after it was sent by reporters. He did not address WIRED’s questions.
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that ICE seeks to go after “the worst of the worst,” but that framing has collapsed under the weight of ICE’s own data, which has been dismantled by a group of government watchdogs, such as Target resource allocation of core funds and Migration data project. that April report From the Deportation Data Project found that ICE arrests of people without any criminal convictions have risen significantly compared to the six months before the start of the Trump administration. In October, ProPublica reported Immigration agents detained or detained more than 170 U.S. citizens.
Some locations listed on Aliens.gov do not appear to be cities or towns at all. One of the “neighborhoods” in the dataset is an address in Ohio that corresponds to the address of a state-run prison.
The site was originally registered by the Executive Office of the President in March, According to To 404 media. At the time, there was speculation that the site would host records about extraterrestrial life and UFOs, since President Trump announced a promise To release new information in February’s Truth Social post. In anticipation, WIRED has set up a script to monitor the site’s uptime.
One of the first things visitors to the site see is a counter labeled “Encounters,” ostensibly indicating the number of illegal immigrants arrested by federal agents since Trump took office. The counter is fake. The starting number — 3,129,580 — is manually typed into the website, and its upward movement is generated by a timer started by the visitor’s own browser, according to a WIRED analysis of the site’s code. This number does not match any enforcement total published by immigration authorities, and is approximately seven times larger than the total number published by immigration authorities Actual number of ICE arrests Since January 2025.
