Game Aids in Avoiding Deportation
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A new computer game claims to give players an idea. The game puts players in the shoes of immigrants as they try to evade officials and in the process tries to soften the contentious debate over immigration.
“A very large portion of the American public is not aware of how far the government has gone to strip this population of their human rights and due process,” said Mallika Dutt, executive director of Breakthrough, a human-rights organization that created the computer game.
The game, which can be downloaded at breakthrough.tv, is called ICED, which stands for I Can End Deportation. The title is a play on the acronym ICE, for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws.
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Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for ICE, called the game simplistic.
“It’s just a game,” Mack said. “And it trivializes the immigration issue, which is very complicated and affects just about everyone in the country.”
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Players choose a variety of characters that include a green-card holder from India, a student-visa holder from Japan and an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, and then try to avoid being chased by ICE agents and deported.
Players try to earn a shot at becoming U.S. citizens by making good decisions while trying to avoid being caught, locked up and kicked out of the country.
(Posted on February 26, 2008)
Comments
Is there a way to fail at this game? If millions of illegals can hold rallies for their “rights” and not have a massive ICE response, what possible scenario could the game architects dream up to trigger one?
It seems like the safest way to avoid being chased by ICE is to “live in the shadows,” i.e. get a driver’s license, bank account, sue for in-state tuition, etc.
Posted by Ryan Chaserian at 6:53 PM on February 26
“A very large portion of the American public is not aware of how far the government has gone to strip this population of their human rights and due process,”………Deportation is not considered a punishment by the U.S. goverment.I was not aware that to live in a white majority nation was a human right.In other words when non-whites become a majority they in fact violate human rights.Since they seem to think that to live in a nation where they are the majority is so horrible.
Posted by Tony Soprano at 7:10 PM on February 26
I suppose there’s no sequence in this game about electing John McCain as President? Let’s just call it Grand Theft Deportation. I guess in the spirit of Ramos/Compean, that you can instantly win citizenship by allowing U.S. Border Patrol agents to shoot you, then testifying against them when they get in trouble.
Radio talker Glenn Beck did a pardoy magazine for illegal aliens called “Barely Illegal,” parodying a real mag that has almost the same name.
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 7:38 PM on February 26
Lol….the makers of this game are INCREDIBLY naive. Your average game player would thoroughly enjoy playing a sniper posted along the US border or some criminal torching illegals with a flamethrower.
Playing an illegal trying to get into the US, facing the mean old immigration police……not appealing to that audience.
Grand Theft Auto….that’s the type of game we like to play.
Posted by at 9:31 PM on February 26
This is hilarious. They’re actually saying that our government is oppressive of illegal aliens and that we actually have them on the run, when in fact they’re pouring in like crazy. It’s like a bully picking on other students who gets media coverage, making it appear the victims are actually picking on the bully! That’s a complete and idiotic reversal.
Although they started publishing stories in the mainstream media a while back of how local governments were cracking down on illegals, and how some of them were starting to get scared. Now about the other 12 million…
Posted by Mike at 10:26 PM on February 26
I suggest that these game makers make a game for the central Americans that are usually beaten, robbed, and killed as they cross into mexico. But I digress, the USA is the villain when it comes to defending its borders in a humane fashion.
Posted by JJ Bjornsson at 11:17 AM on February 27
And…THIS is what our CITIZENSHIP has been reduced to!…this has been turned into a GAME!…this is NOT “trivial” nor “simplistic” and this game needs to have the plug pulled and the business who dreamed this up needs to be put OUT of business ASAP!
Posted by Suzan Donoghue at 12:06 PM on February 27
I have heard a number of people (always white people) tell me how they are enjoying a game that involves building a city, or reconstructing ancient cities.
I wonder if those games have a follow-up stage in which the player must defend those cities from invasion.
Posted by W.D. at 1:36 PM on February 27