Filipino-Americans react to Trump's migrant-chasing arcade games

Filipino-Americans rattled by Trump’s migrant-chasing ‘xenophobia’ games

The recent release of classic arcade games on the White House website, which allow players to deport migrants and build a border wall, has stoked more fear and anger among Filipino-Americans, as observers call out the “xenophobic” tactics in US President Donald Trump’s widening immigration crackdown. Analysts and immigrant advocates described the games, unveiled on Thursday, as “frightening”, trivialising the human toll of the policies and normalising hostility towards migrants, particularly...

By Sam Beltran