An AI-generated image of an alligator in an ICE hat. A line of handcuffed immigrants being boarded onto a deportation flight, backed by the “Jet2 Holiday” audio. A still from the movie E.T., encouraging immigrants to “go home.”
The Trump administration’s use of social media jokes to promote the president’s harsh and unpopular immigration policies is raising concerns among extremism experts that it dehumanizes immigrants by normalizing violence against them.
