<p>NEW YORK – In what it says is an attempt to get students to debate the issue of illegal immigration, a student Republican club at New York University has dreamed up a novel game that has some on campus calling the event “racist.”
In the game planned for Thursday, called “Find the Illegal Immigrant,” members of the club who present their NYU identification become immigration agents looking for an illegal in the crowd. The agent who successfully identifies the illegal immigrant wins a gift certificate.
Students have sent club officials e-mails calling the the event “racist” and “disgusting.” But the club said it is about stoking debate on the issue of illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>“It’s not a racist event, first and foremost,” said Sarah Chambers, the 21-year-old president of the College Republicans. “Just because we don’t want illegal immigrants being able to completely disregard the laws of our country doesn’t make us racist.”
Other students have said they will protest the event</p>
<p>This is no different than the “affirmative action” bake sales in which students sold cookies to minorities at discounted rates. I suspect we will hear a lot of this since it is in NYC. I would imagine that a conservative at NYU is about as rare as a gay republican.</p>
<p>SO I wonder how you spot an “illegal” - by their color, their dress, their accents, their papers, their name, tax returns, what…I have sent them emails asking just that</p>
<p>smack of racism no matter what spin they try and put on it and I hope they are ashmamed</p>
<p>How is this much different than the TV show “Gay, Straight, or Taken”? It sounds harmless. I think the point is that you can’t necessarily identify who is “legal” and who is not. Which is why illegals are all around us. I think people are manufacturing false offense in order to shout racism. I don’t think control of our borders has anything to do with race.</p>