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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Hotline Trolled With Extraterrestrial and Muggle Sightings

posted by on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the trolling-is-illegal-now dept.

takyon writes:

An ICE hotline set up to allow reports of crimes committed by "criminal aliens" has had a close encounter with trolls:

The administration set up the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office on Wednesday, in accordance with President Trump's executive order in January. The office, folded within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, aims to "assist victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens," according to the Department of Homeland Security.

"Alien" is a term used by the federal government to describe individuals who are not American citizens but who reside on U.S. soil. [...] Despite the line's intended purpose, callers have been reporting a range of abnormal activity.

1-855-48-VOICE to report all your encounters w/ illegal martians, rude Sasquatch, unleashed Texas Blue Hounds, Springheel Jack. Goblin army.

— Kathleen Dennis (@chelseabmw) April 27, 2017

ICE denounced the calls, saying such actions hurt victims of real crimes. Callers have even mentioned spotting "muggle-borns," a term from the "Harry Potter" book series referring to magical characters with non-magical parents.

Also at The Atlantic and CNN. Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:33PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:33PM (#501641)

    Reading is fundamental. I was commenting on the writers of the comic book and what was and was not within the range of ideas considered plausible at the time. Even comics are limited to what the audience will accept as plausible, even when you have the general zaniness in MiB. Most people will accept aliens and wierd tech because they don't understand any of it enough to judge what is implausible, but they do understand the real world enough that you can't propose things they know are absurd there without a lot of world building to explain it first. And the MiB acting as the regulating authority on aliens coming and going from Earth and dealing with the threats they bring in with them is pretty much the core idea in that story.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:03PM (#501650)

    > Reading is fundamental.

    And reading bullshit into comic books that isn't actually in those comic books is fundamentalist.