Did you notice this?

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

Discover What’s Streaming On: The new Alien movie, aka Alien: Romulus is now streaming on Hulu, just in time for you to spend your Thanksgiving holiday with a bunch of xenomorphs and facehuggers.

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language moves an audience from watching to acting.