Show Seeks to Love Match Migrants and U.S. Citizens

A Los Angeles company is touting a new reality game show called “Who Wants to Marry a U.S. Citizen” that aims to create televised matrimony between legal citizens and immigrants who have temporary visas.

The show’s backers at Morusa Media hope to make a sort of love match between reality TV and a national obsession with immigration. But the producers make no promise that a marriage will occur or lead to U.S. citizenship.

Show creator Adrian Martinez said that Morusa Media has not yet found a network to produce or air the show, but he is currently in talks with one cable TV network and already has signed up contestants for six episodes.

“It’s this generation’s ‘Dating Game,’ but with a twist—it aims to show love knows no borders,” Martinez told Reuters.

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So far, most of the contestants are Hispanic immigrants, although at least one is from the Philippines, Martinez said.

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