Points of Entry

A commentary on a proposed system that would give prospective U.S. immigrants points based on various criteria such as job status, age, English skills, and so on. You play an immigration clerk who has to adjust the stats of a prospective immigrant so that they're better than those of the clerk next to you, but by as small a margin as possible. It's also timed. The scenario seems a bit silly, but it succeeds in making you learn what the proposed point allocations are, in addition to portraying the process as arbitrary and bureaucratic.


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