Politique de l’invasion

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

<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/751683/original/file-20260728-57-nelv8.png?ixlib=rb-4.1.1&rect=35%2C0%2C921%2C614&q=45&auto=format&w=1050&h=700&fit=crop" /><figcaption><span class="caption">A screen shot of the White House’s Aliens.gov home page.</span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/">Whitehouse.gov</a></span></figcaption></figure><hr> <p><strong>KEY TAKEAWAYS</strong></p> <ul> <li><p><strong>Last May, the Trump administration launched a website designed to track down and arrest undocumented migrants across the United States.</strong></p></li> <li><p><strong>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.</strong></p></li> <li><p><strong>A linguistic analysis of this website highlights a digital process of dehumanising undocumented mig