A controversial advertising campaign from the US Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump has triggered a major backlash among Indian-American and Sikh communities.The DHS shared an AI-generated poster styled as a parody of the Transformers franchise, titled “Transformers: Age of Deportations.” The graphic features a brown-skinned, bearded man wearing a head covering and addresses him as “Mr Singh,” alongside the message: “Get off our roads; you don’t know how to drive, Mr Singh.” The campaign also uses the phrase “Self-deport or find out.”The post has sparked accusations of racism, xenophobia and racial stereotyping, with critics arguing that using “Singh”—a surname strongly associated with Sikh and Indian communities—to make a point about allegedly unsafe immigrant drivers unfairly targets an entire ethnic and religious community.The controversy comes amid the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement campaign, particularly efforts targeting undocumented immigrants working as commercial truck drivers. DHS has cited fatal crashes involving immigrant-origin drivers as part of its argument for tougher enforcement. n18oc_indian18oc_politicsNews18 Mobile App – https://onelink.to/desc-youtube
Last Updated: September 10, 2026, 17:50 IST
