A new kind of government messaging is drawing outrage from immigration advocates.

Critics said some social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the White House are mean memes, calling them inappropriate and dehumanizing.

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Some of the ads look like a viral TikTok video, but the slickly produced video did not come from an influencer but from the U.S. government.

One of the DHS social media posts shows an 80s-style ad for a van with the copy that reads, “Think about how many criminal illegal aliens you could fit in this bad bay.”

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