Immigrant-Crime Hotline Pranked with Calls about ET's

[lpetrich]

We Asked ICE About the Prank Calls to Their Anti-Immigrant Hotline and They Kind of Lost Their Shit

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.

Quoting a letter from VOICE about this issue:

The VOICE line remains in operation. As yesterday was its first day I can’t give you any sense of whether this group had any impact at all on wait times or call volume because there’s no prior data to compare.

I hope you won’t dignify this group with the attention they are seeking. But if you choose to do so...this group’s cheap publicity stunt is beyond the pale of legitimate public discourse. Their actions seek to obstruct and do harm to crime victims; that’s objectively despicable regardless of one’s views on immigration policy.

The VOICE Office provides information to citizens and non-citizens alike regardless of status, race, etc., whose loved ones have been killed or injured by removable aliens. VOICE provides access to the same information you and other reporters are already able to obtain. Yet this group claims it’s somehow racist to give the same to victims of all races and nationalities? That is absurd.

Further, openly obstructing and mocking victims crosses the line of legitimate public discourse. VOICE is a line for victims to obtain information. This group’s stunt is designed to harm victims. That is shameful.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

VOICE is nothing more than a propaganda office and needs to be trolled and shut down.

 

[barbos]

VOICE is nothing more than a propaganda office and needs to be trolled and shut down.

Plus it's a waste of taxpayer's money

 

[Elixir]

VOICE is nothing more than a propaganda office and needs to be trolled and shut down.

Not until someone asks Spicey how many illegal space aliens they've deported!

 

[barbos]

VOICE is nothing more than a propaganda office and needs to be trolled and shut down.

Not until someone asks Spicey how many illegal space aliens they've deported!

You just gave away idea for SNL skit, mister!

 

[Malintent]

What use to victims or family of victims would, "additional criminal or immigration history" be? I understand that such information may be useful to law enforcement or the court system, but what use is it to the victim?

 

[ZiprHead]

It's a bigotry information collection service.