"Reality Show Holds Up Green Card As Bait"

[GreenPartyVoter]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Spanish-language reality TV show is offering contestants an unusual prize: the services of immigration lawyers to guide them toward a green card for U.S. residency.

"Gana la Verde" - "Win the Green" - began airing daily last month on KRCA-TV Channel 62 in Los Angeles. Owner Liberman Broadcasting also airs the program on its San Diego, Houston and Dallas stations.

"People say that our show is like 'Fear Factor,' but it's different because the climax of the show involves working," production manager Adrian Vallarino told the Los Angeles Times.

The show's winner receives a year's worth of help from attorneys to expedite the residency process, the Times reported Wednesday. There's no guarantee of a green card.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040805/D8494RP80.html

[mstrsplinter326]

1. Reality TV

Is really beginning to make me feel like were watching the fall of the roman empire. The "spouse swap" and now this. We live in a country that, when asked "who wants to be a millionaire," most people didn't say "I do."

Am I the only one who feels this way?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. It's insane is what it is. I checked out Colonial house. That's cool

I watch Survivor, Big Brother, and the Amazing Race now and then. But I can't bring myself to watch anything like Fear Factor or Temptation Island.

"The Running Man" is getting closer to a tv channel near you. :(

[Guaranteed]

3. That's pretty fucking disgusting.

Yeah, you can come into our country- if you eat this 10-pound bag of elephant dung first, for our amusement.

[PurityOfEssence]

4. Hey, I know: how about "Dance for your Dinner" in Ethiopia?

I'm sure we can find some famine somewhere to exploit.