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Anti-immigrant video games appear on White House website

From 24.kg · () Russian

Translated from Russian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Games posted by the White House depict catching migrants crossing the Rio Grande and building a wall on the US-Mexico border.
  • The Trump administration said the games present the president’s successes in an innovative way and contrast them with what it called the Democrats’ “dark socialist vision” of the United States.
  • Human rights advocate America Garcia Grewal accused the administration of turning people’s lives into a video game.

The White House has posted video games built around immigration enforcement, including one in which players catch migrants crossing the Rio Grande and another modeled on Tetris, where they build a wall along the US-Mexico border.

We can’t stop winning. Build the wall. Deport. Fill the Trump account.

· White HouseThe message appeared in a White House post promoting the games.

The wall-building game carries the message, “Protect the border from the invading horde.” A separate game asks players to catch bags of money to fill the “Trump account,” referring to government investment accounts for US citizen children born between 2025 and 2028.

A White House post on X declared: “We can’t stop winning. Build the wall. Deport. Fill the Trump account.” An attached video displayed the acronym MAGA, the slogan associated with Donald Trump’s supporters, in a style resembling the logo of video-game maker Sega.

Telling the story of the president’s many successes in a way that resonates with every American citizen.

· Trump administrationThe administration explained its use of the video games to AFP.

The Trump administration told AFP that it placed a strong emphasis on innovation and was “telling the story of the president’s many successes in a way that resonates with every American citizen.” It contrasted that approach with what it called “the dark socialist vision of America that Democrats have.”

They’ve been playing with people’s lives for years, and now they’ve turned their work into a video game.

· America Garcia GrewalThe Frontera Federation representative criticized the games.

Human rights groups criticized the games. America Garcia Grewal of the Frontera Federation said, “They’ve been playing with people’s lives for years, and now they’ve turned their work into a video game.” She said the developers had “lost touch with what it means to be human.”

Lost touch with what it means to be human.

· America Garcia GrewalGrewal condemned the approach taken by the game developers.
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Originally published by 24.kg in Russian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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