“We have to revive patriotism and civil duty in this country,” said a ministry spokeswoman. “We are happy to check unconventional suggestions.”
According to media reports, immigrants should demonstrate at the proposed show who of them is the most American. In this way, the participants could compete against each other or assemble an old Ford. In each episode, a participant should leave.
“This is not ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” said the show’s inventor, Rob Worsoff, according to “Wall Street Journal”. “We don’t say: ‘Hey, if you lose, we will bring you from the country with a boat.”
Trump – even a reality TV star – drives an extremely tough course against irregular immigration and has promised to deport millions of migrants without papers. The government of the right-wing populist and the US authorities use the deportations for highly controversial measures. Trump also wants to lift the protection statutes for numerous refugees and restrict citizenship by birth.