Reality show will be 'Hunger Games' for immigration: Producer
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A reality show producer says he’s pitched a show to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) based on immigrants competing for expedited legal status. 

Producer Rob Worsoff told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas that the show will be a “celebration of America in the most positive possible way.” 

He emphasized that it is not meant to be “’Hunger Games’ for migrants.” 

Worsoff said contestants will already be in the immigration system but would only compete for earlier processing. 

“All I’m offering is to jump to the front of the line,” he added.

The producer said he pitched the idea to the Obama, Biden and Trump administrations and that all three were receptive to the idea, but it didn’t come to fruition. 

Contestants will start at New York’s Ellis Island and then take a train to a different location on every episode and complete various challenges that are all quintessentially American, such as working on a car assembly line in Detroit. 

Worsoff said the show would be made “respectfully and safely.” 

“We’re going to put a face to all these people who are on this journey and want nothing more than to be a part of this country, and we’re going to humanize them, and we’re going to celebrate them,” he told Vargas.

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