00:00Comedian Theo Vaughn is telling the Department of Homeland Security to take down a deportation video that uses his voice.
00:09On X, Vaughn wrote, yo, DHS, I didn't approve to be used in this. Please keep me out of your banger deportation videos.
00:17He added that his, quote, thoughts and heart are a lot more nuanced.
00:21The 31-second DHS clip opens with Vaughn saying, heard you got deported, dude. Bye.
00:27It then flashes agency claims of 2 million deportations in President Donald Trump's first 250 days, 1.6 million so-called self-deportations, and 400,000 removals before ending with leave now.
00:42DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the numbers don't lie.
00:46Vaughn, who has interviewed Trump on his podcast and draws a large right-leaning audience, rarely rebukes the administration.
00:53His pushback lands as DHS spotlights enforcement and Congress advances new immigration bills.
01:00Newsweek reports a United Nations study found fewer migrants traveling north, many citing detention fears and difficulty entering the U.S.
01:09DHS didn't immediately comment on whether it will remove the clip.
01:13Newsweek notes U.S. Copyright Office guidance says permission is generally needed unless fair use applies.
01:19For now, the video stays up, and so does the debate over how far government can go with borrowed voices.
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