White House launches video games based on Trump’s anti-immigration policies

The White House has turned Donald Trump’s immigration policy into a retro video-game arcade. The webpage, called “Arcade,” features five games built around the administration’s border-security measures and deportations of migrants living illegally in the United States.

One game draws on the format of “Snake” and puts players in the role of Tom Homan, Trump’s chief immigration adviser. The aim is to collect as many people labeled “invaders” as possible after they cross the Rio Grande from Mexico, so they can later be expelled.

Another game borrows from “Tetris” and asks users to construct a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Its title, “Protect the Border from the Approaching Horde,” reflects the language used to present the game.

The initiative quickly faced criticism. Amérika García Grewal, co-director of the Texas-based Frontera Federation, told AFP, “I feel sick. They have been playing with people’s lives for years, and now they are making a video game out of their actions.”

White House representatives defended the project as a way to promote the administration’s vision. They said the games highlighted a contrast between a culture of “fun” and profit and what they called the Democrats’ “bleak socialist vision for America.” The controversy comes as the Trump administration intensifies deportation efforts. The Department of Homeland Security recently released a video showing handcuffed Haitian migrants after the administration revoked a decree allowing them to remain legally in the United States. Critics called the video humiliating and racist, while DHS said it arrested nearly 51,000 migrants living illegally in the country during August.

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I feel sick. They have been playing with people’s lives for years, and now they are making a video game out of their actions.