White House Deportation Game Challenging Players to Catch Migrants Goes Viral — Advocates Call It 'Dehumanizing'

The White House launched Arcade.gov, featuring retro-style video games centered on border enforcement and deportation policy. The interactive site has sparked immediate pushback from advocacy groups and online critics. (Credit: Image credit / Artwork: Miguel Paiva via Canva)

A new government-run arcade turns deportation, the border wall and other Trump-era priorities into pixel-art games, and the backlash has split almost exactly along the same lines as the policies themselves.

www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/