DHS Decks Halls With Deportation Cheer and AI Santa Sleigh Rides
KEY POINTS
- •In early December 2025, DHS posted AI-generated Christmas-themed memes with officers in Santa hats promoting deportations.
- •DHS offered undocumented immigrants free flights and $1,000 bonuses to self-deport, sparking celebrity and corporate backlash.
- •California Governor Gavin Newsom and the pope urged compassion, citing scripture opposing DHS's holiday-themed immigration crackdown.
This holiday season, the Department of Homeland Security took 'making spirits bright' to a whole new level by slapping Santa hats on officers and decking tanks with multicolored Christmas lights, promoting deportations via AI-generated memes and Trump-steering-sleigh videos. Their X posts gleefully invited undocumented immigrants to 'go ho ho home,' even dangling a 'fantastic gift' of free flights plus a $1,000 exit bonus if they'd self-deport. White House spokes-agent Tricia McLaughlin promised to 'Make America Safe Again'—because who needs cookie crumbs when you have legal threats from celebs like Sabrina Carpenter and blowback from Nintendo? Meanwhile, California’s Governor Newsom retweeted biblical verses and the pope called for 'deep reflection' on immigration during this Macy’s parade of irony.
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Only the DHS could turn Christmas into a deportation-themed ugly sweater party starring AI Santas and tanks with more Christmas lights than your grandma’s house.
When DHS says 'Merry Christmas,' what they really mean is 'Here’s a one-way ticket and some fairy lights for your goodbye parade.'
Santa’s sleigh got an upgrade—now run by Trump and AI, delivering deportations instead of presents. Holiday spirit: canceled.
Source: Axios | Published: 12/8/2025 | Author: April Rubin
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