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DHS response to ‘influencer’ sharing how he’s in the country illegally is PURE GOLD!

June 11, 2025 | | Print Article

Social media’s “menswear guy,” known for criticizing conservatives, including the president and vice president, put himself under Homeland Security scrutiny with a tell-all immigration post.

Fond of flagging fashion faux pas, especially to present Republicans as lacking in style, Derek Guy has also been an open critic of President Donald Trump’s policies. Sunday, an X screed calling mass deportation efforts “unreasonable” prompted a closer look from officials when it included an admission from Guy that he himself is in the United States illegally.

Opening by expressing, “I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will,” the lengthy post detailed his family fleeing Vietnam to Canada before his father purportedly overstayed a work visa in the United States, where his mother ultimately followed with him as an infant.

“I’m still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant,” contended Guy.

After an account shared the post and said, “the menswear guy just openly admitted on here that he’s here illegally,” the Department of Homeland Security’s X account responded with a GIF from the film “Spy Kids” indicating they were looking closely at the story.

While Guy attempted to spin the arsonist, rock throwing, looting and curfew-inducing protests that had spread beyond Los Angeles to other major cities in the country as “non-violent resistance,” Vice President J.D. Vance also had a chance to inject some humor into a high-profile admission rivaled only by Minnesota state Rep. Kaohly Vang Her (D) admitting from the floor of the state legislature that, “I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country.”

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“JD Vance I know you’re reading this and you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever,” read a post sharing the same message that DHS had replied to.

In response, the vice president shared a GIF of Jack Nicholson from the film “Anger Management,” where the actor nods and smiles, earning more than 10 million views at the time of this post.

Adding his own commentary on the story, journalist Andy Ngo challenged the “lack of details” supporting the possibility of it being fiction “to support a political narrative.”

“There are no dates, locations, or specifics. Vietnam is a big country but he doesn’t name where his family is from. Canada and the U.S. are even bigger. But again, no cities given or even years,” added Ngo, who made the case that the family of the “menswear guy” may have been “extremely wealthy” if they fled Vietnam around the time the claim suggests.

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Previously, the “menswear guy” turned his criticism on the fashion of administration officials like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his stars and stripes-lined suit jacket and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. whom he’d referred to as “the worst dressed major politician” over the course of the 2024 presidential election cycle.

Now, it appears that the last laugh might be going to the MAGA movement that delights in Vance and the administration’s ongoing embrace of social media.

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