ICED: Walking In Their Shoes
Put forth on March 18, 2008 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Deportation, ICE, Immigration, La Migra
Breakthrough, a New York-based nonprofit international human rights organization, recently launched their video game, ICED! (I Can End Deportation), that aims to educate people on current immigration policies, and is targeted to a younger demographic.
Breakthrough is not new to the immigration game. Last summer, I wrote about the deportation of Anslem Ifill, an immigrant of Trinidad and a Gulf War veteran. In that post, I used Breakthrough’s video story who originally reported about Ifill.
ICED has been featured in overwhelming amounts of press including: MTV News, Game Daily and has been covered on popular blogs including, Gothamist and The Huffington Post.
The object of the game is to become a US citizen and not get deported. As an immigrant teen, you can avoid ICE officers by choosing right from wrong and answering questions on immigration. The player runs through a fictional city, dashing through icons that represent acts of civic good like planting trees, donating blood or volunteering at a soup kitchen, and answering questions about immigration in America. Be careful, if you answer questions incorrectly or make poor decisions, you will be ICED! You will be detained with no respect for your human rights.
Play ICED at ICEDGAME.com
Check out Breakthrough’s video game trailer for ICED – I Can End Deportation.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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