@49: one could summarize your response by saying, "If you're not born in US territory, you're not a US citizen." Congratulations, you grasp the concept of nationality.

Let us move to dissolve national borders and become the United States of Earth.

@18: disingenuousness, sensationalizing and political correctness in general get to me. This game paints ICE as an inherently evil Big Brother organization — ooo, scary narrator! ICED wouldn't have existed sans the exodus of Mexicans into the USA.

Now, sure, our immigration policy is an imperfect as any human endeavor and has loopholes that need closed and various problems that need fixing. However, unless folks look to video games to learn about societal issues, ICED won't get our populace any closer to addressing real problems. If you're so apathetic that only a video game can get you to care about US immigration policy, then you are never going to be involved enough to make a difference anyway. Insert Nietzsche here.

Since when did deportation need ending? The power to deport is necessary for any nation to retain sovereignty. "Let's open the borders, dissolve citizenship and become the Earth Nation. Let's all live in peace, smoke some hash and live in a vegetarian utopia." Eh. We should round up all these glossy-eyed idealist imbeciles and eject them onto a terraformed Mars as a sort of planetary-scale Lord of the Flies experiment.

We can look to European and Asian nations as role models for our economy but can't have any semblance of their largely xenophobic immigration policies? Why not? Oh, right — because deportation is the devil. Forget the fact that virtually every civilized nation in the world cracks down on aliens within their borders! Everybody deserves to partake of American largess. They needn't endure the procedures countless millions before them followed. It seems folk think the virtue of coming from a 3rd-world hellhole grants illegal aliens the right to completely bypass extent US laws. It's not like 3rd-world hellholes just suddenly started existing over the last 3-4 decades.

Why not come straight out and address the real issues without the bullcrap? Why can't we address the corruption and incapacity of Central and South American governments, their broken economies & societal upheavals, US laws that need revision, US companies that should be held accountable for employing (exploiting) aliens & thus encouraging alien traffic, etc?

How can one argue against the USA's status as World Police whilst advocating its becoming the World Asylum? I don't know. The hypocrisy and double-standards purveyed by folks who look at issues from the corners of the ring instead of the middle really offend my sensibilities.

I guess that's my biggest problem — stupid people. Antonio Villaraigosa, for example. "How dare you ask American Apparel to prove that each of their workers is actually a legal resident." My god. Our own politicians... there is no end to it. What he should have said was, "How dare you expect American companies to pay people an honest day's wages."

DISGUSTING.

I know, I'm tangential. Sorry.

Please tell me I'm not the only one that was incredibly offended — nay, disgusted — by this.

He's got to be an FES member, eh?

Reactions to this manner of post elucidate the unwillingness or outright incapacity of many folk to be moderate in any sense whatsoever — politically, sociologically, ethically, whathaveyou.

Corporations, for example, are either the devil, snatching up innovation and shrink-wrapping it for the masses, or they're the benevolent strings which hold society together. The truth can't actually be somewhere in the middle — such has the harsh reality of modern life taught us (shh... what's that? oh, that's the man).

Blindness resulting from the polarization of modern culture is pathetic but it is more importantly dangerous in that it creates a penchant for regurgitation in place of critical thinking and dependence in place of individuality & personal responsibility. I don't understand how one can cling to the ideal that eating brand-name anything is a positive step for humanity whilst simultaneously decrying the aspects of our social nature that allow branding & other cultural conglomerations to occur.

Even if mankind has learned nothing else, he must know that societal woes cannot be assuaged from the top down. Those who believe that society is a top-down phenomenon are so far left or right of center that they're both blind to reason and inept in the endeavor of compromise — an art which, I might add, is essential to achieving the sort of civilization restructuring that most "radicals" say they wish for.