ICED makes game out of Immigration debate

bizzare subject for a game.

America's debates about immigration always seem very surreal to me.

When it comes to this kind of thing you really only have 2 choices:
(a) the rules are wrong -> change the rules
(b) the rules are right -> enforce the rules

the debate in the US seems to always boil down to strange ways to bypass the rules or ignore them, without actually ever addressing the problems or making the rules into sensible, fair rules.

Illegal immigrants are illegal. If they shouldn't be illegal then make them legal. But giving them driving licenses and voting rights seems totally surreal.

It's a tricky issue. Whilst every country has rules concerning foreigners, some even tougher(as in "If your passport says you've been in X you can't get in here") in U.S. it seems to boil down to an all or nothing game. The U.S. DOES have the right to decides who goes in, and out, like any other country does. Still, this kind of policies are full of not really well thought out ideas and pressumpted effects.

All in all, making a game about it is probably oversimplifying it. It doesn't show life before or after. It's a game with a prewritten message.

The truths is that I'm tired of hearing IGNORANT Americans talk their shit (emphasis on "ignorant" because not all Americans are closed minded). Talking from experience legalizing yourself is so damn hard and the reason I moved there was because the situation in my country is terrible, but I bet many didn't know that since they talk their minds out without first doing some research. Ignorant people like that piss me off because they do not know what it's like to be an immigrant yet talk so much shit about us as if they knew what it was like. Do they really think people move out of their country out of the blue? Because the answer is NO!!! We do it out of necessity!!!

Just for the record I don't live in the U.S. anymore, happy? Oh and I wasn't illegal either-shocker right?

kavendano14
"Mperhaps it wouldn't be such a big deal if you would have closed the borders when you saw the first million passing by"

When you say "you" you don't mean me. I am not...I AM... uh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_rico

That up ther's me...

ASK THE Knuckleheads at Breakthrough why don't they have the other side of illegal immigration in the game...

ASK THEM WHY: they are not concerned with the human righs of the over 45,000 American Killed by Illegal Aliens since 9/11.

ASK THEM WHY: they are not concerned with the molestation of over 2700 kids by illegal immigrants per year.

ASK THEM WHY: they are not concerned with the HUMAN RIGHTS of Mexican women and children being bought and sold as sex slaves. Sex traffickers transport at least 18,000 captives into the United States each year.

ASK THEM WHY: they are not concerned about the rights of THE AMERICAN WORKER. For every illegal alien worker, there are three lower skilled Americans who do not have a job. There are 23 million working-age Americans with no college education already are without a job.

Fact 75% of illegals are Mexican. We should insist that MEXICO improve the health care, education system, and standard of living in their own country. We need to insist that other countries improve the HUMAN RIGHTS OF THEIR OWN CITIZENS.

We have enough problems with our own, we just don't need to have more.

A healthy dialogue ensuing here. However, I just want to remind you that the current laws affect all immigrants: legal permanent residents, asylum seekers, students, not just undocumented people.

And the unfair immigration laws, we explore in the game:

• Deny a fair day in court and deport people without a hearing

• Tie judges’ hands and prevent them from considering the circumstances of each individual case

• Impose unjust punishment

• Hold immigrants in detention indefinitely

America should be a place that respects these basic human rights. When we let the government deny due process and human rights for some people, we put all of our freedoms at risk.