As resistance to the Trump administration’s mass deportation blitz intensifies and spreads, the regime is now openly spreading white supremacist propaganda online to justify its fascistic crackdown.
On Wednesday morning, the official X account of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted an anti-immigrant image that was apparently generated using artificial intelligence. Styled to mimic a World War II-era US propaganda poster, the image features a militarized version of “Uncle Sam” targeting immigrants.
In the image—originally created by a white supremacist—Uncle Sam is depicted nailing up a fascist-style poster that reads, “Help your Country … and Yourself…” Beneath it, in bold capital letters, the message commands: “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS ICE: 866-DHS-2-ICE.”
The workers and families targeted in this mass deportation campaign are not “foreign invaders.” The immigration Gestapo is not battling an enemy army but hunting day laborers outside Home Depots, farmworkers harvesting crops, students—including elementary school children—and longtime residents simply showing up for legally mandated immigration check-ins.
The language of “foreign invader,” belched by Trump for over a decade and now adopted wholesale by the Republican Party, is the language of Nazi Germany and fascists the world over. It is a rhetorical weapon used by the ruling class to divide the working class and deflect attention from the real source of social misery, poverty and inequality: the capitalist system.
In addition to being shared by the official DHS account, the anti-immigrant propaganda was reposted by Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and the official White House Instagram account. On the latter platform, the image drew thousands of outraged responses. “Didn’t the Germans tell people to report the Jews?” one user wrote. Many others replied that the real criminals worth reporting and deporting were occupying the White House.
The image was originally created by an X user, who goes by the handle “Mr. Robert” (@mrrobertwp). His profile is saturated with fascist and racist bile, including frequent use of the N-word. His network of “frens” includes open neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antisemites of every variety.
After his fascist propaganda was amplified by Stephen Miller and the official White House account, “Mr. Robert” celebrated the attention by posting:
This should inspire you all. I made a digital poster. @whitelandia made some too and printed them out. There was no sign of having an impact more than 1 person tearing it down if you put one up. (sic)
TODAY OUR EFFORTS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
In the same post, “Mr. Robert” retweeted X user @Whitelandia, who shared a photo of printed copies of the anti-immigrant poster stacked on a table. “It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. MAWA,” the caption read—invoking the white supremacist slogan “Make America White Again.”
After DHS, Stephen Miller and the White House Instagram account shared his fascist poster, “Mr. Robert” tweeted: “Let’s go! Maybe the Great White Hope, The Big Donald will put eyes on it.”
The overtly fascist and white supremacist character of the Trump administration—a regime of, by and for the financial oligarchy—is impossible to hide or ignore. In its bid to impose a military dictatorship under the American Führer, the administration is plumbing the depths of fascist reaction.
Following his declaration of war on the American people at Fort Bragg on Tuesday, Military.com reported that soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division were “handpicked” to attend Trump’s speech based on their “political leanings and physical appearance,” according to internal communications reviewed by the outlet.
In addition to the directive that there be “no fat soldiers,” internal communications instructed that any soldiers “with political views that are in opposition to the current administration and [who] don’t want to be in the audience ... need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out.”
By requiring lower-ranking enlisted soldiers to report their political opposition to the “Commander-in-Chief” to their superiors, the military is actively cultivating an armed force loyal not to the U.S. Constitution but to the dictator Trump.
Military.com also reported that during Trump’s speech, a vendor affiliated with the “365 Campaign” out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was permitted to operate on Army property. The vendor sells pro-Trump campaign merchandise, and soldiers were reportedly seen purchasing fascist trinkets, including “Make America Great Again” chain necklaces and faux credit cards labeled “White Privilege Card: Trumps Everything.”
Backed by Wall Street, the Trump administration is deploying fascist language to dehumanize immigrants—hoping that workers will remain passive when the immigration Gestapo comes to their neighborhood or workplace to disappear their friends, family or co-workers.
This strategy appears to be failing miserably. On Wednesday, protests and solidarity marches—ranging in size from a few hundred to several thousand—erupted in cities across the country, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, San Antonio, Philadelphia, Denver and Minneapolis.
According to USA Today, as of June 11, anti-ICE protests have taken place in at least 45 cities across more than a dozen states. Since June 6, over 800 people have been arrested while participating in the demonstrations, including more than 650 in San Francisco and Los Angeles alone.
Following the imposition of a curfew on Tuesday, the LAPD reported arresting over 200 people. As of this writing, more than 2,000 people are protesting against the immigration Gestapo in downtown Los Angeles.
Well over an hour before the curfew was set to begin, police preemptively declared the protest an “unlawful assembly.”