Homeland Security can support a reality show that grants American citizenship
The Department of Homeland Security criticizes a report from the Daily Mail that suggests that it could participate in a reality show that would offer immigrants the opportunity to compete for American citizenship.
“Fake news Friday”, the DHS announced in a press release, where it said: the “the last media hoax” in the torch. “The Department said that the story of the Daily Mail was’ False ‘, in particular the report that secretary Kristi calls the reality television showpitch by producer Rob Worsoff (shown above), whose credits’ All or Nothinging: Toronto Maple Leafs’,’, ‘,’, and, ‘, and’, and ‘, and’, ‘, and’, and ‘, and’, and ‘, and’, ‘,’ and Matchmaker ‘include.
In a statement, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin mentioned the story of the Daily Mail ‘An insult to journalism’.
“Secretary Name has not ‘supported’ and is not even aware of the pitch of a script or reality show,” she said in a statement. “DHS receives hundreds of TV show fields per year, ranging from documentaries around ICE and CBP operations to white collar investigations by HSI. Each proposal undergoes a thorough control process prior to denial or approval. This pitch did not receive approval or rejection by staff.”
But that means that McLaughlin does not actually deny that they have received the field of Worsoff. And according to the New York TimesWorsoff himself confirmed that the idea for the show was very real.
Worsoff said the newspaper that immigrants could compete in challenges throughout the country, also on Trivia or social affairs. He said that the winner of the series would receive citizenship, but that others would not be punished or deported. (The show would be called ‘The American’, according to the pitch deck obtained by the Daily Mail.)
“We need a national conversation about what it means to be American,” said Wersoff, a Canadian who also became a naturalized American citizen, The Times said. “We must be reminded of how proud and how much an honor it is to be American … We are going to get to know these people and their stories and their travels, and we celebrate them as people. We bring a face for these people, on their journey.”
It is still unclear whether the show was thrown at networks. When asked to comment on the story of the New York Times, the DHS sent their comment about the Daily Mail piece instead. But in the New York Times, McLaughlin seemed a bit more open to the idea than her press release would like to believe: “The field was generally a celebration of an American and what a privilege it is to be a citizen of the United States of America,” she said the newspaper. “It is important to breathe new life into the civil obligation.”
Variety has also contacted the representatives of Worsoff for comment.
