Human Rights Group Develops Immigration Based Game ‘ICED’
By Stephany on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 3:28 PM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry
Unlike the controversial Border Patrol game which is also about immigration, ICED (I Can End Deportation) critically examines the U.S. immigration system and how the newcomers to the “Land of Opportunity” must navigate the sticky and trapping web of rules. The game was released Monday, and online players have five characters from different countries to choose from as they try to avoid immigration officers and stay out of detention as they try to become citizens of the United States.
“The video game emerged out of a desire to try and create something that was experiential — that enabled people to walk in the shoes of an immigrant,” said Mallika Dutt, Breakthrough’s executive director. “Our point is not to say we don’t have to come up with a fair solution to deal with the undocumented issue, but to remind everybody immigration policy is a bigger conversation about what kind of America we want to live in.”
ICED is just the latest game to be developed by a nonprofit group determined to get their point across via online gaming. Darfur is Dying is one such game where players are refugees trying to survive in the Sudan, which has been played by over 1.5 million people within the last two years. The U.S. Army even uses a video game when recruiting young people to give them an idea of what to expect should they decide to join that branch of the Armed Forces.
In ICED, players must answer questions about the immigration system correctly to avoid being carted off to a detention center – one character is an undocumented immigrant brought to the U.S. as a child on a now-expired visa; the other four are trying to keep their legal status – one of which is a Polish immigrant named Anna. She is about to lose her green card because of a drug conviction and is trying to make her case to stay.
The game is expected to be distributed to schools in New York, and immigrant’s rights groups in the Southern California area. Considering that illegal immigration is a major hot-button issue in my state- due to all the thoroughbred horse farms employing them, I am sure it will be headed this way as well. Anywhere there is a substantial amount of immigrants be they illegal or not, the game is sure to bring about some major discussions between those on both sides of the fence. Especially since our next president will be determining what or if anything can or will be done about the state of immigration in the US.
With the popularity of video games skyrocketing, and the bad and good press it receives, it will not be long before every special interest group on the planet has their own little flash game online. Watch – PETA will be next. In it, you will be able to throw red paint on a Hollywood Starlet for wearing fur, break into a science lab and rescue monkeys, commondeer thousands of animals from people and instead of finding them homes murder them like chickens at KFC. I can guarantee you one thing, I will never play that game.
Via: Panatgraph
This is some of the most disgusting filth ever.
Popularizing being an illegal alien.
People say,
“Oh well conditions in their home country are so horrible!”
They have to break the law here? shows the respect they have for this country.
“The way to becoming a citizen is much too hard!”
It wasn’t hard for me and millions of other Americans who were born here. But I do admit, it should be easier for non-United States Americans.
“Mexico used to own the southern states anyway!”
Which they rightfully stole from Native Americans too. Let’s be honest, we were all sadistic assholes looking to get as much land as possible, and that the United States even decided to hide behind God and religion as their excuse for conquering this fine land. But leave the past in the past. If you want the land back, then take it by force, use the military! Make strikes against the Government! Not the people who live there.. that can come later.
The United States of America, sure it isn’t the cleanest place in the world, with tons of amount of crime, and homeless, and people being unfed, and certainly it doesn’t help every country in the world.
How can this country claim to be so great?
Because of the financial system?
It’s because of the belief that every one has a right to pursue happiness.
If your definition of Happiness is being a miserable lawyer who blames video games for the muders of the whole world, you have a right to.
If your definition of happiness is marrying a person of the same Gender, you have a right to.
If your definition of Happiness is praying to a multitude of Gods as opposed to one, or none at all, you have a right to.
If your definition of Happiness is working a dead-end job to fund your WoW addiction, you have a right to.
That is what makes this country great, is it’s diversity.
But, just as you have a right to your happiness, nobody is going to simply give it to you. You still have to work for it.
Is it unfair that elderly people can’t afford Health care? No, they should have planned better.
Is it unfair that children are born in the ghetto and are worse off than those born with a silver spoon? No, infact it’s my opinion that the children born in the ghetto have better capability for realizing their dreams than those born to rich children.
Am I saying it’s unfair that these illegal people are entering this country and exploiting it’s system?
Not necessarily. It doesn’t matter if it’s unfair or not. It’s still illegal.
And therefore immoral.
I love the example of the overly religious illegal immigrant.
He’s just like the priest that molests children.
The Bible says to respect the law, and both of these examples fail to do so, but still use the word of God to cleanse themselves of any wrong doing.
I’m not saying that I am without wrong doing, I have admitted to every wrong act I have committed.
But I do not hide behind a higher power, to cleanse me of these things, I do my best to resolve the issue by my own power.
Anyway, not only is illegally crossing into the United States illegal, but also highly immoral.
‘It’s still illegal. And therefore immoral.’
Immoral is to pay for locally grown convicted felons serving life sentences while others struggle to make a living and can get an education because the state tuition is more than they can pay.
Highly immoral is spending millions on multiple wars around the globe while Six million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger.
Even more immoral is to chose to protect all the home grown worthless useless individuals who live on welfare or unemployment benefits from hard working ‘illegals’ who just want to work to feed their families.
I see, …you have admitted to every wrong act ….. just like all illegals admit that they broke the law when they came. So What?? Your sins have been forgiven but theirs not?????
Go ahead and continue writing that nonsense of yours.
P.S. Try not to buy or get any service from an illegal if you can.
bbj,
I never said any of those things were wrong, but just because we’re doing one thing wrong, or several, does not mean we should do any more.
And I’m fairly certain I could avoid buying or getting service from an illegal immigrant fairly easy. I don’t use cash, even if I do, it’s from a vending machine.
And just because they admit they broke the law when they came, they’re not admitting their continuation of breaking that law, neither are they ceasing to break such law.
TAKE ACTION: Contact the Knuckleheads at Breakthrough.
http://www.breakthrough.tv/contactus.asp?id=10
ASK THEM WHY: they are not concerned with the human righs of the over 24,000 American Killed by Illegal Aliens.
ASK THEM WHY: they are not concerned with the molestation of over 2700 kids by illegal immigrants…
ASK THEM WHY: they are not concerned with the HUMAN RIGHTS of Mexican women and children being bought and sold as sex slaves. The third largest crime scheme after drug and weapons trafficking, sex traffickers transport at least 18,000 captives into the United States each year.
So Peter…Illegal immigrants are a horde of evil, child molesting, murdering, pillaging Orks who want to stomp all over every apple pie in a fifty km radius? Most illegals are friendly, hard-working people that didn’t or couldn’t climb through all the red tape it takes to get through to America legally.
I ASK HOW many American citizens murder, molest, and generally run amok. Probably more then those numbers. Every group of people has bad apples, with Latin Americans being no exception.
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