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Hey, Nintendo: You Cool With ICE Using Your Pokémon IP To Recruit More Goons?
If we were to play a Techdirt word association game where you say the first thing that comes to your mind when I say “Nintendo,” the answer had better be “intellectual property bu…
Well, we’re going to see if there any limits on the larger end of that spectrum now, because DHS released what I guess is a recruiting video that turns the entire prospect of enforcing our immigration laws into a fucking game of Pokémon. The one-minute video features footage of individuals being arrested by US officers, spliced with clips and music from the catchy opening theme of the Japanese animé, which Nintendo partly owns. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council advocacy group, said a door that is shown near the start of the video being blown up was at a home “where multiple US citizens lived”.
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