Report All Foreign Invaders, the 2025 DHS poster in wartime style

A Department of Homeland Security poster posted on X on June 11, 2025 shows an Uncle Sam figure in a 1940s-style palette above the words "Report all foreign invaders" and an ICE tip-line number.

What the poster prints

An Uncle Sam figure, drawn in the muted colors of a 1940s home-front poster, hammers a sign into place. The lettering beside him splits into two appeals, one to duty and one to self-interest, and ends in a phone number.

Help Your

Country...

and

Yourself...

REPORT

ALL

FOREIGN

INVADERS

ICE:

866-DHS-2-ICE

Who issued it

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, posted from its account on X (@DHSgov) on June 11, 2025, during the Trump administration. The archive's image comes from Wikimedia Commons, where the file carries both a DHS public-domain tag and a PD-AI tag, which Commons applies to images it treats as machine-generated. The source is openly identified. The department signed it.

How to read it

The archive tags it as name-calling, transfer, and loaded language. The label is the center of it. In the archive's reading, "foreign invaders" is a loaded label for people who have entered the country without authorization. An invader is an armed enemy. Unauthorized entry is a violation of law; the poster's word turns it into an act of war, and invites the reader to treat a neighbor accordingly.

The style does the rest. Uncle Sam and the wartime palette borrow the authority of posters like Flagg's I Want You and the security sheets of the Second World War, such as He's Watching You. Those posters asked citizens to enlist or to keep quiet. This one asks them to inform.

That is the part with a history. In 1918 a wartime notice, "Spies and Lies," told readers to report a man who "cries for peace"; the Committee on Public Information page covers that record. A tip line is lawful, and enforcing immigration law is a legitimate federal job. Asking the public to report "all foreign invaders" is different. It does not tell the reader how to tell who is here unlawfully, and it gives him a reason to be suspicious of anyone who seems foreign. It invites reports about citizens and lawful residents too. Due process belongs to persons, not only to citizens, and a poster that starts from the word "invader" has already skipped it.

The same department is the subject of the Disinformation Governance Board case study, from an administration of the other party. The Trump administration essay reads this post with the administration's other agency posters and reports.