‘They walk among us.’ The White House’s Aliens page and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants

A screen shot of the White House’s Aliens.gov home page. Whitehouse.gov KEY TAKEAWAYS Last May, the Trump administration launched a website designed to track down and arrest undocumented migrants across the United States. Playing on the ambiguity of the term ‘aliens’, the online platform portrays Washington’s anti-immigration policy as a system combining science-fiction entertainment with large-scale surveillance. A linguistic analysis of this website highlights a digital process of…