Leftists are fuming about a clever World War II-type advertisement that urges Americans to report “foreign invaders” to a hotline at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The “invaders” are, of course, illegal aliens, whose removal has the far-left Democrats in hysterics.

Invaders might be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s term for them, said MSNBC hostess Nicole Wallace. Smacks of “McCarthyism,” Los Angeles magazine claimed. The “language of Nazi Germany,” the World Socialists complained. What invasion? asked CNN’s Aaron Blake.

Answer: The illegal-alien invasion of military-age men that 10 former FBI officials detailed in a letter to congressmen and senators on January 17 last year.

The eye-catching retro ad features an old motif: Uncle Sam seeking help from patriots. “Help Your Country… and Yourself… REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS.” There follows the DHS hotline.

Immediately, the rage machine whirred to life, predictably enough at the Democratic Party’s Information Ministry, MSNBC.

Hostess Wallace allowed that she had “mixed feelings” about showing the ad, complaining that “your taxes are paying for this ad to be disseminated on Elon Musk’s platform, X.” 

“Did Vladimir Putin write that?” she asked retired Army Brigadier General Steve Anderson.

“He might very well have,” Anderson answered. “I’ll tell you one foreign invader we could deal with is Elon Musk.”

“Our strength in our democracy is our ability to take so many different cultures and so many different religions and make something great,” Anderson continued:

And that’s what we’ve done throughout our entire … diversity has been our strength. And when you look at that, it taps into the isolationist impulses of a lot of people, the inner racism and hatreds that a lot of people have, unfortunately.

Why “isolationism” is “racist” Anderson didn’t say. 

“The flyer, which is reminiscent of former Vice Presidential candidate Tim Waltz push for neighbors to report others for violating Minnesota’s COVID-19 lockdowns, utilized imagery often associated with McCarthyism propaganda released during the Cold War,” Los Angeles magazine claimed:

At the time, Americans were urged to report anyone they suspected of having communist leanings, which ensnared many Hollywood actors who landed on a blacklist that tore through the industry in the 1940s into the 1950s. 

The World Socialists fumed. The ad, it claimed, was created by a “white supremacist.” Illegals — whom it called “workers and families” — “are not ‘foreign invaders,’” the website whined. Then came the Trump-is-literally-Hitler trope.

“The immigration Gestapo is not battling an enemy army but hunting day laborers outside Home Depots, farmworkers harvesting crops, students — including elementary school children — and longtime residents simply showing up for legally mandated immigration check-ins,” the website reported:

The language of “foreign invader,” belched by Trump for over a decade and now adopted wholesale by the Republican Party, is the language of Nazi Germany and fascists the world over. It is a rhetorical weapon used by the ruling class to divide the working class and deflect attention from the real source of social misery, poverty and inequality: the capitalist system.

For his part, CNN’s Blake tried to knock down the ad by citing testimony from “Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, who “acknowledged that the United States isn’t currently facing such a threat.”

Caine is a four-star general, by the way. But anyway, Blake quoted Caine as follows: “I think at this point in time, I don’t see any foreign state-sponsored folks invading.”

“This might sound like common sense; of course the United States isn’t currently under invasion by a foreign government,” Blake wrote. ”You’d probably have heard something about that on the news. But the administration has said — repeatedly and in court — that it has been.”

To his credit, Blake admitted that “the administration would argue that Trump has halted the invasion and it is no longer happening; Caine was speaking in the present tense.” But then he backpedaled:

But if an invasion had been happening recently, it seems weird not to mention that. And if the invasion is over, that would seem to undercut the need to keep trying to use the Alien Enemies Act.

If Blake were paying attention, he would know that Trump declared an invasion at the southern border on Day 1 of his presidency. And his invoking the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) targeted Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua (TdA), which he designated a terrorist organization along with other gangs such as MS-13.

The reason: TdA is an arm of Venezuela’s corrupt Maduro regime, as Trump’s order says, which Blake blithely dismissed by citing “intelligence officials.” But as The New American reported in March, a retired top CIA official told the Miami Herald that TdA is a Maduro operation that has targeted the United States.

“Among those sent to the United States were 300 gang members who had received paramilitary training in Venezuela, said Gary Berntsen, a decorated former CIA station chief who headed the agency’s unit searching for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan,” the newspaper reported:

“The Venezuelan regime has assumed operational control of these guys [Tren de Aragua] and has trained 300 of them; they have given them paramilitary training, training them to fire weapons, on how to conduct sabotage, how to use crypto,” Berntsen, one of the team members, said. “They have given them all like a four- to six-week course. They put these 300 guys through that course and that they were deploying them into the United States to 20 locations, to 20 separate states.”

Another team member, who requested anonymity to protect the identities of the team’s sources in Venezuela, said the group has had access to records from the police agencies of the South American country and that these were provided to the Trump administration, and that they have led to the identification and arrests of at least 800 Venezuelans who are believed to be either full-fledged members of Tren de Aragua or members of smaller affiliated gangs.

And, as Trump noted, TdA worked with “Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela.”

So even if Trump stopped the invasion, the invaders are still here. And that explains his invoking the AEA.

Beyond that, however, is the letter from the FBI officials, which Blake and the other complainers also missed. They called the millions of illegals whom the Biden administration unlawfully imported an “invasion.”

“It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is comparatively a multi-division army of young single adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent, or allegiance is completely unknown,” the officials wrote:

They include individuals encountered by border officials and then possibly released into the country, along with a shockingly high estimate of “gotaways” — meaning those who have entered and evaded apprehension. …

These men are potential operators in what appears to be an accelerated and strategic penetration, a soft invasion, designed to gain internal access to a country that cannot be invaded militarily in order to inflict catastrophic damage if and when enemies deem it necessary.

As for those “workers and families,” they were not the target of the immigration enforcement that sparked the riots in Los Angeles. Rather, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had served three criminal warrants on a business that was evading tariffs and linked to south-of-the-border cartels. “Protesters” interfered with the arrest of 40 illegals at the business.

One of the illegals arrested, among more than 100 with criminal records, is a previously deported Mexican, now charged with attempted murder, who hurled a Molotov Cocktail at police.