The plight of migrants is deeply understood. Can the video game help?

On the past In the year, Carla Reyes and her team in Anima visited the United States and Mexico twice to meet immigrants and humanity. Once a month, Reyes takes away migrant interviews via video calls. I spoke to dozens. They come from Latin America, but also South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and each has a common goal: crossing into the United States in search of safety.

In January, hours after President Donald Trump openingThousands of immigrants suddenly received a notification that their appointments with customs and the protection of the American border – the agency that would help them gain asylum –It has been canceled. Management close One CBP application allows migrants to apply for asylum. The first was among many road barriers that the new administration would stand up to those seeking to emigrate to America.

“In a moment, the course of their lives has been changed again,” says Reyes. “These are people who are waiting for years.”

For Rice, she only strengthened the feeling of urgency about her current team project: a group funded by a group called Take north About immigrants who make a trip across the border. “Although the game has not been released yet, we critically think about how to continue to share information, process of misleading information and share resources with our society,” she says.

Reyes, one of the biggest misconceptions about immigrants, says she hopes the game will help in correcting – is the story of the reason they leave their homes for the United States. “The general public often gets this narration that immigrants are often trying to come to the United States for a purely economic opportunity,” she says. The truth is that the majority of the migrants I met do not want to leave their homes. Most of them flee persecution and violence. They leave behind everything they love, but they have no other choice. “

The attendees play an early version of Take north In an event hosted by non -profit games for change.

With the permission of the change games

The game puts players in immigrant guide shoes.

With the permission of the change games

Anima plans to issue Take north In late 2026 or early 2027, at this point, the conditions that immigrants face can be more clear than those they face now.

In late February, Ministry of Internal Security He claimed that “in one month during the era of President Trump, more than 20,000 illegal foreigners were arrested.” More arrests will certainly try to manage Deportation. According to Washington Post’s latest reportMore than a million immigrants may face the United States during the period of President Joe Biden, a rapid removal. Immigrants who were arrested in the United States are increasingly dangerous conditions regardless of deportation, including the prison At the Center for Operations Migrants in Guantanamo, Gounaamo Bay, Cuba. The asylum seeker’s journey is never easy, but in 2025 it is an increasingly frightening possibility.

Take north-Reyes says that the adventure game driven by the adventure about immigrants traveling through the Sonorran Desert-trying to enhance sympathy and increase awareness about “issues that are often reduced in the main media to statistics or discord to dispute.” Many immigrants do not want to leave their homes, but they are forced to do so, whether it is due to violence, persecution or extreme poverty. Reyes says others have been kidnapped and they were unable to go home. “These are innocent and honest people who were just in unfortunate circumstances,” she says.