Video Game Lets Players Be Immigrants Fleeing Law

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"ICED!" — a new video game that invites players to step into the shoes of foreigners who run afoul of the U.S. immigration system.

 

 

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MIAMI — A Japanese computer science student fails to take a full load of university classes and loses his student visa. A 10th-grade Indian girl is detained because of a high school essay she wrote on the Department of Homeland Security.

 

These are two of the characters in "ICED!" — a new video game that invites players to step into the shoes of foreigners who run afoul of the U.S. immigration system.

 

It is part of a burgeoning genre of video games that examine major social and policy issues such as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the situation in Darfur and the Electoral College.

 

"The game allows you to get into the body of a person, so you can experience what they are going through. There are very few opportunities to get that perspective," said Mallika Dutt, head of the nonprofit Breakthrough, which produced the game and uses new media to highlight social issues around the world.

 

"ICED!" — a play on the acronym for the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office — is scheduled to be available for free download next month.

 

[frank 2,304]

Not as bad as killing people

[Voltaire 5,315]

In my favorite video game, I'm a mafioso running around killing people, breaking laws and stuff. I can't be upset at a game aimied at the (cough) "undocumented worker" segment.

 

Do you get to kill the immigration officers?

[Angry White Male 0]

WTF?!?!?! Has the world gone completely CRAZY!?!!

[NorthernVike 2,086]

Do they let you get inside the Border Patrol peoples body and shoot up messicans as they swim across the border? If so I'd play