Now You're Playing With...Policy?
This is just one of a bunch of games designed to teach the average person about current laws and what's it's like to be part of a particular demographic. In this case, the subject is immigrants:
"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. It differs greatly from games like "Border Patrol," which popped up on the Internet last year and exhorted players to kill illegal immigrants as they entered the country.
"ICED!" seeks to show how immigration laws passed in 1996 expanded the number of crimes that can trigger deportation and limited immigrants' rights to appeal.
Players try to avoid deportation by keeping a low profile and performing community service. Shoplifting or jumping a subway turnstile loses points. Lose too many, and your character ends up in a federal detention facility.
Maybe this will start new trend of advancing political agendas. Wouldn't hurt.
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