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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Artist accuses Homeland Security of stealing his work for meme that promotes deporting one-third of the country

Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security promised “the peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world” in the agency’s New Year’s Eve message imagining the removal of 100 million people from the country.

Attached to the post on the agency’s X account was a painting from Hiroshi Nagai’s Beachcomber series, showing a classic American car parked on the beach as a massive wave hurls towards the shore.

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