‘State-sponsored dehumanisation’: White House slammed for using pop music in deportation video post

This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has tied deportation to pop music. Just weeks earlier, the White House posted another video, soundtracked by Semisonic’s “Closing Time.” That video showed a deportation in progress, captioned with a lyric often heard as bars close: “Closing time, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”