What 2 Canadian Kids Crossing The Border Playing PokemonGo Tells Us About Immigration Enforcement
*Imagine if these had been little brown kids crossing the border in some Arizona town. Think they would have called their mom to come fetch ’em? VL
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress
In an incident that may not have played out in the same happy way if it had happened on the southern U.S. border, two Canadian kids fully absorbed in the viral augmented reality game PokémonGO illegally crossed into the United States last week.
Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found the juveniles walking south from Canada into a remote part of Montana while playing the PokémonGo game on their cell phones.
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“Both juveniles were so captivated by their Pokémon GO games that they lost track of where they were,” CBP Public Affairs Officer Michael Rappold said in a statement. “They crossed the international border inadvertently, but agents were able to reunite them with their mother.”
[Photo courtesy of The Verge]
