Trump Administration Removes Spanish Version of White House Website Again

WASHINGTON — The Spanish-language section of the White House's website went dark just a day after President Donald Trump took office.

The WhiteHouse.gov/es page displayed a 404 error with a "Go to Homepage" button, showing the absence of Spanish-language communications.

This action echoes Trump's first term when, shortly after taking office in January 2017, the landing page for Spanish-language communications was also unavailable. Despite then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer's assurance that the site would be restored, it remained offline throughout Trump's initial four years in office.

The removal of the Spanish-language section follows a series of executive orders aimed at reshaping immigration policies, including reviving policies from Trump's first term that his predecessor had reversed. These include forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while waiting for their cases to be processed and continuing efforts to build the border wall, alongside new initiatives like ending automatic citizenship for those born in the U.S.

Additionally, Trump's administration has also taken down other sections of the White House site, including one that featured the U.S. Constitution, and shut down the government website reproductiverights.gov, which was created under the Biden administration to provide resources on abortion and related topics.

Hours after Trump's inauguration, his administration also discontinued the U.S. Customs and Border Protection One app, which allows migrants to schedule “immigration appointments.” The app was created during the Trump administration to assist with scheduling cargo inspections, but it was expanded by the Biden administration in 2023 to enable nearly 919,000 people to be paroled into the country.

“All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions of criminal aliens back to their home countries,” Trump said in his address.

After the inauguration, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to Trump, urging him to use all his authority to secure the border. He pointed to what he called “federal interference” that was hindering enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border.