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DHS citizenship show

joecct 🚫

Saw this on X.

"The Department of Homeland Security is considering the creation of a television show in which migrants would compete for potential U.S. citizenship, per WSJ"

If they call it "Average Joes", I'm falling off the chair.

palamedes 🚫

@joecct

Someone is either watching to much Squid Games or we are having a reboot of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits.

FantasyLover 🚫

@joecct

Average Joses?

Replies:   sunseeker
sunseeker 🚫

@FantasyLover

"Average Joes"...from the Swarm Cycle stories I believe is what is being referred to...

SunSeeker

Replies:   Radagast
Radagast 🚫

@sunseeker

In this case the competitors would be average Joses instead of average Joes.

Replies:   Michael Loucks
Michael Loucks 🚫

@Radagast

In this case the competitors would be average Joses instead of average Joes.

Don't you mean 'Average Josés'? 😎

Replies:   awnlee jawking
awnlee jawking 🚫

@Michael Loucks

Don't you mean 'Average Josés'?

'Promedio Josés' :-)

(Google)

AJ

Replies:   jimq2
jimq2 🚫

@awnlee jawking

(Google)

Or Giggle?

Dominions Son 🚫

@joecct

Did the X post have a link to an actual WSJ article? Did the article match how the post described it?

ystokes 🚫

@joecct

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-is-considering-reality-show-where-immigrants-compete-for-citizenship-47de277c

If you can't read that one here is another.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html

According to the producer it has been talked about since the Obama admin.

Replies:   Crumbly Writer
Crumbly Writer 🚫

@ystokes

Frankly, it sounds remarkably like yet another way of identifying any immigrants who've actually managed to locate and maintain a still-secure refuge.

Replies:   Dominions Son
Dominions Son 🚫

@Crumbly Writer

Frankly, it sounds remarkably like yet another way of identifying any immigrants who've actually managed to locate and maintain a still-secure refuge.

This would be my thought. Lots of police departments run "stings" where they use a fake contest to pull in wanted individuals. This sounds like a honeypot to get illegal aliens to identify themselves.

TheDarkKnight 🚫

@joecct

Being the deviant I am, I can see this idea taking a naughty twist. Maybe I'll cogitate on it for a while.

"Hello, ma'am, I'm from DHS, Deviants Hug Senoritas.

Hmm, that probably needs more work.

Grey Wolf 🚫

@joecct

My first thought, upon hearing this, is that it's one more step down the road that leads to 'The Running Man', 'The Long Walk', 'The Hunger Games', etc being real reality shows instead of fictional ones.

Right now, the stakes in most 'reality' competition shows are 'win, get stuff; lose, don't get stuff'. This creates a real possibility where 'lose, and get sent off into a highly unsafe environment' is an option - one the contestants will no doubt make a point of in competition. Higher stakes, higher drama, but it creates a situation where, six months later, you might get news stories of the form 'Remember that second-place guy in the show? Who said gangs would kill him if he was deported? Well, gangs killed him.'

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