All It is likely to become entertainmenteven the immigrationin the government of Donald Trumpa man who for 14 years was Television star reality with ‘The Apprentice’. He National Security Department from the United States has confirmed that it is Studying to participate in ‘The American’, an ‘reality show’ style contest in which 12 immigrants would compete for citizenship.
The news about the project was exclusively given this Thursday ‘The Daily Mail’ and ha confirmed Tricia McLaughlin, spokesman for the department. McLaughlin has assured that he is “In the earliest phases of the process ” but It has not yet been approved or rejected.
What McLaughlin has denied is the information of the British tabloid according to which the Secretary Kristi Noem He supports the contest and states that he has not even known that he has been raised.
A secretary in the eye of the hurricane
Noem is already in the eye of the hurricane for his propaganda actions at the head of his wallet. On the day of the first raids against immigrants in the second Trump administration he hung on social networks a video before the operations ended. At the end of March traveled to El Salvador and from Cecot, The infamous maximum security prison of Nayib Bukele where Trump has sent more than 200 immigrants, recorded a hard hand message (with a striking Rolex of $ 50,000 on the wrist). He has also recorded in English an ad urging those who are in an irregular situation in the US to leave the country, a campaign for which they have reserved 200 million dollars.
A month ago ‘The Wall Street Journal’ published an article where critical voices were collected within the department for Noem’s approach focused on image and television, where his work and authority were questioned and there was talk of Shocks and friction with Tom Homanthe man whom Trump has placed as ‘Tsar of the border’.
“They are not hunger games”
Behind the idea of the ‘reality show’ is Rob Worsoff, a producer and screenwriter Originally from Canada (and American nationalized) that created others such as ‘Duck Dinasty’, focused on a family of Louisiana hunters. In statements to the ‘Journal’ Worsoff has defended its project, which ensures that I already proposed unsuccessfully to the governments of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and has tried to reassure how it would work.
“They are not hunger games for immigrants”the producer has said, referring to the trilogy of novels, then adapted to the cinema, about a totalitarian government that designs an inhuman system to maintain social order through fear and oppression and forces young people from impoverished areas to compete to death in a ‘reality’, exploiting them as entertainment for the elite.
Worsoff has also explained that participants would be immigrants whose records have already been previously studied to their selection and that in normal circumstances they could opt for citizens. That’s why, Being eliminated from the contest would not mean that they were to be deported.
“I am not affiliated with any political ideology. As an immigrant, I only try to do a program that celebrates the immigration process and have a national conversation about what it means to be American through the people who want it most”, Said the producer.
The format
According to the presentation of the project to which the ‘Mail’ has had access, in the program they would participate 12 Immigrants. These would arrive on Ellis Island in New York, in ‘The Citizen Ship’ (A word game between “Citizen Boat” and “Citizenship”). The presenter of the contest would receive them, a famous American naturalized. The proposal cites as possible examples to three original actors from Colombia, Ukraine and Canada: Sofia Vergara, Mila Kunis and Ryan Reynolds.
The contestants thereafter would make a Trip on the train ‘The American’which would give title to the contest, and would make stops in different states, where They would learn local history and culture and have to participate in challenges linked to the regionhow to collect clams in Maine, set up an engine in an assembly chain in Detroit and a rocket in Cabo Cañaveral (Florida) or walk in balances on trunks in Wisconsin. In the grand final they would arrive in Washington and The winner would swear citizens on the Capitol staircase.
Defense
McLaughlin, the national security spokeswoman, has defended that The department receives hundreds proposals a year for collaboration in audiovisual projects, including documentaries on border security operations. The Government also ensures that it is normal for the members of the department to serve as advisors for producers and the collaboration with a program of the National Geographic channel, owned by Disney, entitled “To Catch a Smuggler”, focused on the work of agents in different US airports.
