Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

It’s an attempt to rile up the MAGA base over reforms to the immigration system 60 years ago. Tom Homan, White House “border czar,” during a television interview in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2026.

Messoline, 61, is the manager of the UFO Watchtower, a scrappy roadside attraction that rises out of the southern Colorado ...