
Rights groups criticise online games released by the Trump administration amid mass deportation programme.
The White House released a website featuring classic arcade games with a MAGA twist, including games where players deport migrants and build a border wall, drawing swift criticism from rights groups.
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The White House released a website with MAGA-themed arcade games as the administration steps up mass arrest and deportation programmes.
US President Donald Trump’s White House on Thursday unveiled a website featuring classic arcade games - but with a “Maga” twist, in which players can deport migrants and build a border wall.
Rights groups swiftly criticised the release of the online games, which comes as the Trump administration steps up its mass arrest and deportation programme for undocumented migrants.
One game called Rio Run - an updated version of the game Snake - features a digital version of US border tsar Tom Homan chasing migrants with different skin colours next to the Rio Grande river on the Mexican border.
Another game based on the block-stacking game Tetris is called Build the Wall. “Protect the border from the coming horde,” the instructions say.
A third involves collecting nets to put in so-called “Trump accounts” - investment accounts containing a US$1,000 deposit for children born in 2025 through 2028.
The White House account on X posted a video with the “Make America Great Again” logo Maga, based on the logo of video game maker Sega.

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