Racist Republican "Games"

The Democratic National Committee sent out a press release today, condemning the College Republicans for encouraging racist events having to do with illegal immigration. According to the release, “This latest ‘game’ has become part of a disturbing trend of College Republicans’ events around the country, including events like ‘Catch/Find an Illegal Immigrant Day,’ which is being orchestrated by the NYU College Republicans.”
The UMD College Democrats, in disbelief, found the event listed on the NYU College Republican’s website (pictured). At the beginning of 2007, the NYU College Democrats offered to co-host a bipartisan panel with the College Republicans about immigration, a sensitive and urgent issue in our country. The College Republicans decided against it and instead engaged in “games” designed to further polarize College campuses on this issue.
For some people legal immigration is a long and costly process, when they are living in squalor, poverty, and under an unstable government. The US government has been formulating policy on illegal immigration primarily from Central and South America, for years, and passing this issue off as a "game" is insensitive and racist in motivation and in practice. We join the College Democrats of America in urging the National College Republicans to condemn these activities.

To view the press release click here