There is a new videogame called ICED out there. It is supposedly free to download. The game involves five young foreigners, including a legal resident of India, a Japanese student and a Mexican without legal papers, go thru a series of situations that show how immigration laws affect human rights. It takes you on a trip and gives you a first hand look at the current situation of immigrants in this country.

ICED started out as a simulation of a detention center but Dutt soon realized that a game would reach a lot more people. The objective is simple: try and win a green card or citizenship. You can gain points by doing community service such as planting a tree. But there are many ways to lose points – like answering an immigration “myth-or-fact” question wrong, jumping a turnstile or forgetting to send in your change of address form when you move.

“The idea is to show how the system is stacked against you,” says Mallika Dutt, who is the owner and founder of Breakthrough TV that created the ICED game.