Reporting Aliens to the Feds

No, wrong alien.

On Wednesday morning, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency unveiled an office called VOICE (Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement) dedicated to “the needs of crime victims and their families who have been impacted by crimes committed by removable criminal aliens.”

By Thursday, VOICE’s most prominent feature—a hotline through which people can call to learn, among other things, “additional criminal or immigration history may be available about an alien to victims or their families”—was swamped with prank calls reporting illegal aliens. As in alien aliens. And judging by the enraged email that ICE sent me when I asked for comment, the agency is supremely pissed off about it.

Yes, calling a government hotline to report space aliens is immature and stupid. I seem to recall similar trolling from conservatives, however, when Obama set up his “Attack Watch” hotline.

Look at it this way, the Chinese and Russians don’t troll and prank their governments. That is something only free people can get away with.

More here.