{"id":2436666,"date":"2025-05-19T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-officials-shoot-down-report-of-planned-immigration-game-show\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:06:13","slug":"trump-officials-shoot-down-report-of-planned-immigration-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-officials-shoot-down-report-of-planned-immigration-game-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Officials Shoot Down Report of Planned Immigration Game Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-officials-shoot-down-report-of-planned-immigration-game-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2436666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a controversial report from the Wall Street Journal claiming that the Department of homeland Security (DHS) is considering a reality show in wich immigrants would compete for U.S. citizenship. This <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >claim sparked widespread outrage<\/a>,especially among critics of the Trump administration,who interpreted it as a &#8220;Hunger Games&#8221;-style competition for citizenship. Though,the report was largely misrepresented. The first paragraph clarified that the DHS is merely considering a pitch for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-cares-trump-quits-screen-actors-guild-after-they-threaten-disciplinary-action\/\" title=\"\u2018Who Cares!\u2019: Trump Quits Screen Actor\u2019s Guild After They Threaten \u2018Disciplinary\u2019 Action\">television show<\/a> that was proposed during the Obama administration, rather than actively planning a reality show. DHS Assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin later debunked the story, emphasizing that the DHS receives many pitches each year and that this particular idea has not been approved or denied. Thus, while the concept exists hypothetically, no actual steps toward a reality show have been taken.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If something sounds a little too good to be true, it probably is.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s a lesson that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aggressive-trump-critic-michael-rapaport-admits-wrong-makes-shocking-conversion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critics<\/a> of the President Donald Trump administration appear to be learning after an outlandish report turned out to be, in fact, mostly false.<\/p>\n<p>An unbelievable Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/dhs-is-considering-reality-show-where-immigrants-compete-for-citizenship-47de277c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on Friday came with a rather bombastic claim in the headline: &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dhs-files-emergency-scotus-request-violent-gang-members-take-ice-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DHS<\/a> Is Considering Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for Citizenship.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(This was exacerbated by another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14713113\/DHS-Secretary-Kristi-Noem-reality-TV-immigrants-compete-US-citizenship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story<\/a> from the U.K. outlet The Daily Mail, which pointed to Secretary of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oblivious-swalwell-warns-noem-everyone-instantly-notices-mistake-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristi Noem<\/a>&lsquo;s alleged complicity in this.)<\/p>\n<p>Many on social media took the headline &mdash; and that alone &mdash; and ran with the angle that the Department of Homeland Security was considering some dystopian &ldquo;Hunger Games&rdquo;-style battle royale for citizenship.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s safe to assume that many of those critics didn&rsquo;t get past the headline, because the first paragraph of the Journal&rsquo;s report makes it clear what&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>actually&nbsp;<\/em>happening: &ldquo;The Department of Homeland Security is considering being part of a television show in which immigrants would compete for potential U.S. citizenship, an idea the producer pitched as far back as the Obama administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Being pitched to be a part of something is a far cry from &ldquo;considering [a] reality show,&rdquo; as the headline originally suggests.<\/p>\n<p>But that headline was enough for this story to take on a life of its own, as Trump critics used the confusingly-worded title to pillory the current administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is sick. Under the Trump Administration we lose more of our humanity every day.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5QIgzXAWxe\">https:\/\/t.co\/5QIgzXAWxe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoaquinCastrotx\/status\/1923426857375989934?\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&rsquo;t take much effort to find similar outrage across all of social media.<\/p>\n<p>Just one problem: none of that report appears to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin took to X to rebuke one of the propagators of this report, the Daily Mail via The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is completely false. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyMail?\">@DailyMail<\/a>&rsquo;s &ldquo;reporting&rdquo; is an affront to journalism. Secretary Noem has not &ldquo;backed&rdquo; or even aware of the pitch of any scripted or reality show. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHSgov?\">@DHSgov<\/a> receives hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-denies-that-noem-is-collaborating-on-migrant-reality-tv-show\/\" title=\"... denies that Noem is collaborating on migrant reality tv show\">television show pitches<\/a> a year, ranging from documentaries surrounding ICE&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/srSBHYl3Vp\">https:\/\/t.co\/srSBHYl3Vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TriciaOhio\/status\/1923183924047442191?\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is completely false,&rdquo; McLaughlin posted shortly after the report started gaining traction. &ldquo;[The Daily Mail&rsquo;s] &lsquo;reporting&rsquo; is an affront to journalism. Secretary Noem has not &lsquo;backed&rsquo; or [was] even aware of the pitch of any scripted or reality show.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[DHS] receives hundreds of television show pitches a year, ranging from documentaries surrounding ICE and CBP border operation to white collar investigations by HSI.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Each proposal undergoes a thorough vetting process prior to denial or approval,&rdquo; she added.&nbsp;&ldquo;This pitch has not received approval or denial by staff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(McLaughlin actually spoke to the Journal regarding its story, and didn&rsquo;t seem particularly upset with them in her X post.)<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it. This dystopian show does exist &mdash; but only as a hypothetical pitch at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>And DHS is &ldquo;considering&rdquo; it like it would anything else, at least according to McLaughlin&rsquo;s description, but not a single thing has been finalized.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This is a lesson critics of the Trump administration are discovering after a sensational report was revealed to be largely inaccurate. A striking headline from the Wall Street Journal claimed, &#8220;DHS Is Considering Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for Citizenship.&#8221; This was further fueled by a story from The Daily Mail suggesting Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem&#8217;s involvement. Many on social media seized upon this headline, interpreting it as the Department of Homeland Security contemplating a dystopian competition for citizenship akin to &#8220;The Hunger Games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, those critics may not have read beyond the headline, as the first paragraph clarified that the DHS is merely considering participation in a television show where immigrants might compete for potential U.S. citizenship-an idea pitched during the Obama administration. The distinction between being pitched an idea and actively considering such a reality show was lost in translation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this clarification, critics used the misleading title to attack the current administration vigorously. Outrage spread across social media platforms with many expressing their dismay at what they perceived as an erosion of humanity under Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Yet none of these claims appear to hold water; DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin publicly refuted them on X (formerly Twitter), calling out The Daily Mail&#8217;s reporting as false and an affront to journalism. She stated that Secretary Noem had neither supported nor been aware of any scripted or reality show pitch and emphasized that DHS receives numerous proposals each year which undergo thorough vetting before approval or denial.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, while there exists a hypothetical pitch for such a show, nothing has been finalized or approved by DHS at this time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2436667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kristi-Noem-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36295,3813,3634],"class_list":["post-2436666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-game-show","tag-immigration","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kristi-Noem-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436670,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436666\/revisions\/2436670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}