The Department of Homeland Security has sparked a Pokémon backlash after using the kids’ game to promote ICE deportation raids.

The DHS social media team posted a video to X on Monday of dramatic immigration raids—including one that was bungled yet still posted online by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—spliced with animé imagery from the popular Japanese cartoon and collectibles game, which is part owned by Nintendo.

Set to the official Pokémon theme tune, it was a clear imitation of the show’s opening sequence.

DHS also shared five mocked-up Pokémon ‘cards’ featuring some of the men the department has arrested and deported, which it describes as the “worst of the worst,” with their crimes—including ‘child molestation’ and ‘homicide’—blazoned across them.

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