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Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids


A video captioned “Gotta Catch ’Em All” spliced raid footage with Pokémon imagery, sparking calls for Nintendo to step in.

Alex Brandon/Pool via Reuters Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, pointed out that one of the clips was from a raid over which Noem has found herself in legal hot water. They were never shown a warrant and were handcuffed and led out the shattered door into the light of the fleet of cameras Kristi Noem brought to the raid for PR.” In July, British actress Zoë Lister—the voice of Jet2’s viral “Nothing beats a Jet2Holiday!” ad— slammed the White House for lifting her audio to score a deportation meme, calling it a “nasty agenda,” while singer Jess Glynne, whose track “Hold My Hand” is part of the trend, said the post made her “sick.”

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