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\n 25\/12\/2025 – 10:16 GMT+1\n <\/p>\n
Ho ho… holy hell. <\/p>\n
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been getting into the festive spirit, and their latest AI-generated video has sparked backlash online, with many labelling it as “disgusting” way to promote a divisive immigration agenda.<\/p>\n
The clip posted by the Department of Homeland Security, aimed to promote voluntary self-deportation before the end of 2025, was shared on social media with the slogan \u201cAvoid ICE Air and Santa\u2019s naughty list!\u201d. <\/p>\n
It casts Santa Claus as an ICE agent putting on body armour, handcuffing \u2018migrants\u2019 and loading them onto a deportation plane. <\/p>\n
Check out the AI slop below: <\/p>\n
Critics have described the Christmas-themed campaign \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The video does make one wonder if the Department of Homeland Security realises that: <\/p>\n
Santa Claus is based on Saint Nicholas, who was known for his generosity of spirit and therefore completely at odds with everything ICE stands for.
\nSaint Nicholas was a 4th century Greek bishop from Myra, now modern-day Turkey, and therefore not American.
\nSanta is known for ignoring border controls and international airspace regulations to spread joy and presents, presumably without a visa, ESTA form or passport.<\/p>\n
With all this in mind, ICE would probably consider Santa an illegal immigrant and deport him. Talk about a self-own. <\/p>\n
Lumps of coal for you this year, Department of Homeland Security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 25\/12\/2025 – 10:16 GMT+1 Ho ho… holy hell. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[9484,220,218,219,969,61,1629,60,109982,80,115],"class_list":["post-211603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-christmas","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-santa-claus","tag-technology","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}