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18 de Febrero 2008

Free Game About Immigrant Deportation Debuts Online

The hype for the video game, ICED - I Can End Deportation, has been ongoing since last spring when it was first announced by its creators at Breakthrough tv.

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The object of the game is to become a citizen of the United States. The game's characters are different teenagers who are all here either illegally or as Green Card holders. With a big city backdrop complete with honking horns, traffic and police sirens, the game attempts to educate players on unfair immigration laws that violate human rights by denying due process to people and deporting them without hearings and/or holds them in detention indefinitely.

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8 de Febrero 2008

New Online Dating Service Targets the Latina Market

The U.S. Census reports that there are 59.8 million single mujeres in the United States. That's a lot of women without a "significant other."

The problem is compounded for Latinas who are looking to spend their days with someone like papi or maybe Enrique Iglesias.

Yet these days, it's hard to meet Señor Right.

It was this cultural gap in the online dating world that first caught the attention of two University of Pennsylvania graduate school buddies, Ariel Oxman and Joe Spector. The two realized that the dating needs of Latinos across the nation just weren't being met with such sites as Match.com or E-Harmony.

Latinas looking to date somebody wanted a guy who could share the same culture. In other words, they wanted a Latino.

So the two created QuieroLatino.com to help Latinas and Latinos find their perfect match.

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