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Immigration Game Another Marketing Insult

Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration is a new iPhone and iPad game set for release by Owlchemy Labs LLC. The Boston game studio said the game is meant as a satirical comment on "the difficulties of immigration to the United States." But Eva Milona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, thinks "it's a tasteless and horrible joke." She said she saw the trailer for the game and was horrified by such imagery as babies bouncing out of pickup trucks. One of the developers said it's all cool because the game's about bringing attention to immigration issues and that people at a local Starbucks loved it.

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