LSU College Republicans Host 'Find The Illegal Immigrant' Game

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Joey Cooper moved to the United States when he was 3 years old after being born on a Naval base in the Philippines.

Cooper, who was considered a U.S. citizen because he was born on the base, moved to the United States in 1988. But Cooper's Filipino mother, Mari Lou Cooper, immigrated with his family and waited six years to become a citizen.

Cooper, political science junior, said he has a greater understanding of immigration because of this experience.

He said it made him want to participate in the "Are you illegal?" event held Wednesday.

Cooper was one of 10 students who participated in the campuswide scavenger hunt hosted by the College Republicans.

The game challenged students to "catch" people designated as "illegal immigrants" and have their name entered into a drawing to win prizes.

Two of the 10 students marked as illegal were supposed to be Al Qaeda operatives, and finding them gave participants more chances to win the drawing.

"It's to provoke debate and discussion about illegal immigration," said Jody Crouch, College Republicans president. "We're getting feedback, some positive and some negative. We're not doing this to shy away from the issues."

An estimated 10 million to 12 million illegal immigrants currently live in the United States, said Steve Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.

"It's an imperfect science, and 10 to 12 million is a good number," Camarota said. "There could be a little more now, sure, but the margin of error with an estimate like that is bigger than the annual growth."

Saibett Tome, mass communication senior from Mexico, said she thinks the event was highly offensive.

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[Katina]

1. Copycats! they already did that at NYU

stupid game

[Parche]

2. Game

So when is DU hosting the 'Find the Constipated Conservative Ignorant Right Winger"??? :bounce:

[Deep13]

5. Well, that's not much of a challenge.

:eyes:

[LynneSin]

11. FOUND A BUNCH HERE>.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/

What do I win?

[Parche]

14. Prize

You win a furball from Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills!!!!



Or if that doesnt 'fit' you

Then we have a 1week stay at the famous Crawford Ranch Resort
where every room has email access!!!!



And to top that one off, you are entitled to a day 'Hunting Excursion' with Bullseye Dick Cheney

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

3. These College Republicans are persistent, but they never play the right game:

It should be "Find The Unethical Greedy Business Owner Who Wants to Save Some Money and Hire People Who Can't Complain About the Crappy Work Environment He Maintains" Game

[otherlander]

4. These people should move to Mexico

and join the EZLN. :evilgrin:

[underpants]

6. Oooh we are oh so close to a real life MAN HUNT

Will it be televised? Oh I hope so. I just can't wait until the first pasty whitecollar felon is released into the wild.

Why aren't these half asses over with their MinuteMen bretheren on those long cold lonely ;-) nights in the desert? Why aren't they over there fighting them there so they don't have to fight them here? Why aren't they? Well....

[denverbill]

7. Do College Republicans hold any non-racially motivated events?

First it was Affirmative Action Bake Sales. Now Illegal Immigrant Hunts. What's next? Islamo-fascism Awareness Day?

Oh, ok. I guess so.

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-facism-awareness/

Just in time for Hitler's Birthday and the anniversary of the OKC bombing!

[realisticphish]

9. I'm wondering this too

why don't they ever say, "we're conservative because x,y,z, if you agree with that come to our meetings." It always has to be some huge controversial puerile joke so they can bitch about people being "PC"

[Jimbo S]

10. and claim themselves to be victums

It always has to be some huge controversial puerile joke so they can bitch about people being "PC"

[bullwinkle428]

12. You forgot about the "Slave Auction" parties which seem to surface

on an almost annual basis, yet they can't understand what the problem is with something like that! :puke:

[jus_the_facts]

8. Ahh well...we can't ALL be perfect down here....

....jus ME! :P

[KamaAina]

13. I found him! I found the illegal immigrant!

He's busy building roofs on people's houses in New Orleans. See, that's the problem. All these repukes were looking up in Baton Rouge, 75 miles away. :P

[Yavin4]

15. When You're In The Majority, You Never Have To Worry About Being Hunted Down And Singled Out

That's why they play these kinds of games, and then get mad when people say it's offensive.