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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed it is successful the aboriginal stages of vetting a imaginable world amusement that would person immigrants competing for a fast-track to citizenship.
As archetypal reported by The Daily Mail, shaper Rob Worsoff, the caput down shows specified arsenic "Duck Dynasty," approached the section astir the idea, successful which helium envisions personage migrant hosts welcoming immigrants who would past undertake competitions crossed the country, specified arsenic digging clams successful Maine oregon rafting successful Colorado.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia said the amusement “is successful the precise opening stages” of a vetting process, noting the section receives galore requests for information successful tv programming.
“Secretary [Kristi] Noem has not ‘backed’ oregon adjacent reviewed the transportation of immoderate scripted oregon world show. The Department of Homeland Security receives hundreds of tv amusement pitches a year,” she said, including documentaries pursuing borderline agents, and “Each connection undergoes a thorough vetting process anterior to denial oregon approval.”
In an interrogation with The Wall Street Journal, Worsoff stressed that, “This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants.”
“This is not, ‘Hey, if you lose, we are shipping you retired connected a vessel retired of the country.’”
He besides told the outlet that helium had pitched the thought arsenic acold backmost arsenic the Obama administration, but the task did not summation traction.
Worsoff, who immigrated from Canada, told The Daily Mail that the amusement would beryllium called "The American," besides the sanction of the bid that would shepherd them astir the state for the assorted competitions.
“I’m not affiliated with immoderate governmental ideology. As an migrant myself, I americium simply trying to marque a amusement that celebrates the migration process, observe what it means to beryllium American and person a nationalist speech astir what it means to beryllium American, done the eyes of the radical who privation it most,” helium told the Mail.
Under the Trump administration, DHS has been approaching media otherwise than its predecessors, with Noem shooting a video from a Salvadoran situation informing migrants not to travel to the U.S. to spending $200 cardinal connected an advertisement run thanking President Trump for his actions astatine the border.
