We Asked ICE About the Prank Calls to Their Anti-Immigrant Hotline and They Kind of Lost Their Shit
AP On Wednesday morning, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency unveiled an office called VOICE ( Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement ) dedicated to "the needs of crime victims and their families who have been impacted by crimes committed by removable criminal aliens." Advertisement By Thursday, VOICE's most prominent feature—a hotline through which people can call to learn, among other things, "additional criminal or immigration history may be available about an alien to victims or their families"—was swamped with prank calls reporting illegal aliens. As in alien aliens. And judging by the enraged email that ICE sent me when I asked for comment, the agency is supremely pissed off about it. The hoax crusade bubbled up on Twitter all day Wednesday. Adding to the frenzy was the fact that VOICE's launch date of April 26 was also " Alien Day "—a reference to the moon featured in James Cameron's 1986 classic, Aliens ( LV-426 . Get it?).Read full article from We Asked ICE About the Prank Calls to Their Anti-Immigrant Hotline and They Kind of Lost Their Shit
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