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Border Patrol uses video game to simulate job
« on: April 06, 2011, 09:12:49 PM »
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U.S. Border Patrol Spends $1 Million Making a Videogame Simulating Their Job

Joel Johnson — U.S. Border Patrol Spends src= Researchers at a government-funded laboratory have built a giant touchscreen video game that simulates the capture of illegal aliens. In a statement made to Kotaku by an official spokesman, the entire project and underlying systems cost "in the ballpark of $10 million [worth] of internal investments," with the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection contributing the final $1 million to create their border simulator.

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http://gizmodo.com/#!5789500/us-border-patrol-spends-10-million-making-a-videogame-simulating-their-job


Those wishing to play a video game simulation from the perspective of the undocumented border crosser may do so HERE
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Re: Border Patrol uses video game to simulate job
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2011, 09:25:53 PM »
Illegals have an easier time crossing the border than Frogger does crossing the road.