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'Transformers were aliens too': Social media reacts to Trump administration's racist poster targeting Indian drivers

Social media users have slammed a US DHS immigration ad featuring a brown man labelled Mr Singh and accused it of racial stereotyping. Critics also mocked the campaign's use of Transformers characters, noting that Optimus Prime is himself…

Social media users have slammed a US DHS immigration ad featuring a brown man labelled Mr Singh and accused it of racial stereotyping. Critics also mocked the campaign's use of Transformers characters, noting that Optimus Prime is himself an alien.

The campaign has drawn criticism from advocacy groups and social-media users, who accused DHS of using racial and religious stereotypes in its immigration messaging.

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