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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

UPDATE: Woody Guthrie's song "This Land is Your Land" -- co-opted for Trump DHS "protecting/defending" social media post campaign - PR

In first week November 2025 -- Dept. Homeland Security

is again co-opting material they did not seek permission

nor pay copyright royalty - usage in mass media distribution

of an artist's unique images:  family of late Magazine illustrator

PAINTER Norman Rockwell

In series of posts, the DHS - ICE is using across social media

well-known images from Patriotic / family, home-grown,

generalized groups/individuals 

pairing them with anti-immigration slogans such as :

DEFEND YOUR CULTURE / Protect America Way of Life

NYTimes.com/2025/11/04/arts/design/norman-rockwell-homeland-security-

immigration.html 


CNN discovered in early August 2025 that

a promotional online / social media POSTING

from Dept. Homeland Security is subverting the 1940s message

of the Woody Guthrie copyrighted song "This Land is Your

Land".  Amid slick Madison-avenue images and a horse-drawn

American Flag,  DHS image-makers use the background

audio - instrumental version to make an anti-immigration message :

TRICIA McCLAUGHLIN, DHS

assistant secretary answered CNN

in a statement defending the post :

We're Confident . . .

CNN.com/2025/08/05/us/this-land-is-your-land-trump-dhc-cec

the Dept. Homeland Security "music video spot"

was posted on "X" / formerly Twitter


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