Many of you may have seen Attorney General Doug Moylan’s latest billboard campaign of a cartoon caricature depicting a man in shackles with luggage, a passport and the word “Purged.” Or maybe you’ve seen the social media videos of non-citizen offenders that have been deported and given questionable nicknames. It’s part of the AG’s Office's "Deport Air" program, which he says he’s ramping-up as he closes out his term next year.

In his latest billboard campaign titled “The AG Moylan Purge,” Moylan gives a stark warning to repeat and violent non citizen criminals.  Scanning the billboard’s QR code sends users to the Office of the Attorney General’s website, where Moylan explains the “purge” in detail. 

It’s where the AG says he’s dialing-up what he calls his “focused attacks upon criminals” in the next 12 months as he concludes his four-year term. 

He told KUAM News, "We’re going to hunt them down, prosecute, and get them out of our community, adding, "it’s essentially to protect crime victims and to protect all of us from the suffering these criminal aliens are doing to we and our families."

On Tuesday, his office launched social media “Purge Reels” showcasing 110 non-citizen offenders that have already been deported or are in the process of being deported.  This “inventory of tributes,” he says, serves as a warning to “alien guests.”

KUAM questioned Moylan on his rhetoric and whether he had concerns the billboard could come off as culturally insensitive. "You’re dealing with people literally being murdered, raped, robbed and assaulted and all types of violent crime from these criminal aliens," he responded. "Then on the other side, you’re balancing hurting people’s feelings. I’m not in the business of trying to make people happy to the extent that others are suffering because of feelings of cultural insensitivity."

Moylan says a majority of the deportees are from the Federated States pf Micronesia - mainly Chuuk - as the Reels reflect. 

He defends the videos and billboard, arguing it acts as a deterrence and makes law-abiding residents safer. Asked if he felt the campaign might create tension with that community locally, he said, "Quite frankly, I don’t care. They already created the tension by violating our laws and hurting our people."

"Again, the names that you’re seeing in the Reels that we’re featuring as tributes there, look at their rapsheets. These aren’t just one-time criminals that are being unjustly deported from Guam. These people have long rap sheets and many of them are from the family court, when they were below 18."

As reported, under his Deport Air program, non-citizen criminals convicted of violent crimes can be voluntarily deported in exchange for a suspended sentence. This initiative, he says, saves taxpayers money and frees up space at the prison. 

In the meantime, KUAM reached out to the Public Defender Service Corporation for comment on how this impacts Guam’s public defense system.